Dear Pepper is a monthly advice-column comic by Liana Finck. If you have questions for Pepper about how to act in difficult situations, please direct them to dearpepperquestions@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for brevity and clarity.
Liana Finck, a New Yorker cartoonist, is the author of, most recently, “You Broke It!”
Daily Humor
The Daily Cartoon, Shouts, and other funny stuff from our Dept. of Hoopla.
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear Pepper: Doggedly Pursuing Someone and College Anxiety
Questions about when to stop pursuing a sexual partner, and how to deal with stress and depression at college.
By Liana Finck
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear Pepper: A Couple in a New City, and An Unkind Letter
Suggestions for struggling with being your partner’s entire support system, and what to do when your friends gossip about you.
By Liana Finck
Video
Kid Inventors Tell All
Students between the ages of six and twelve offer sage advice at the National Invention Convention on solving real-world problems, big and small. Behold: the Blackberry Picker, Storibot, and the ChemotheraPop.
The Current Cinema
“The Fall Guy” Is Gravity-Defying Fun, in Every Sense
Starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, this action-comedy about a stuntman, by the stuntman turned director David Leitch, sticks its landings, but don’t expect characterization.
By Richard Brody