Hello!
I’m Edith Zimmerman, and Drawing Links is a comics newsletter about my life. I started it in 2019, although it went on hiatus from 2022 - 2024. I also illustrate the newsletter The Small Bow. My comics and cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue, and New York Magazine.
In 2010 I started the women’s site The Hairpin, and I’ve written for The Cut, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and The Awl. I live in upstate New York with my husband and two daughters. I’m also on Etsy and Instagram.
How do you make the comics?
I draw with pen and colored pencil on paper. Then I scan the pages into my computer, reformat them in Preview, and send them out as one or more long JPGs or PNGs. I gave an interview with Uses This that goes into more detail on this process.
Has this newsletter ever been recommended anywhere cool??
Drawing Links has been mentioned in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Kottke, and Metafilter, as well as in a number of great newsletters, like Laura Olin’s, Ann Friedman’s, and A Thing or Two With Claire and Erica. And possibly yours; please feel free to link or excerpt anything you see here.
[UPDATE 6/2025] Did you just turn paid subscriptions on again?
Yes, I did, but I’ll still be sending everything out for free! I love making this newsletter, and I love sending it out for free, but I would also love to make money from it.
Thanks for reading!
