Joanna Neborsky

Biography

Joanna Neborsky is a Los Angeles–based illustrator and animator. Her art has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, among others. Her books include Illustrated Three-Line Novels, with text by Félix Fénéon (Mark Batty, 2010); Tumbling Old Women, with text by Daniil Kharms (Corraini Edizione, 2011); and A Proust Questionnaire (Tarcher, 2016).

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Eclipse Season

By Anna Badkhen ,  Illustrations by Joanna Neborsky

When was the first prayer? Was it immediate, a direct appeal, like Abraham’s plea that God spare Sodom? Or was it asymptotic, a request that the petitioner be somehow granted an exemption from the world’s sorrows?

collage of clouds and eclipse