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Sage Stossel - Sage Stossel is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and draws the cartoon feature "Sage, Ink." Her children's book, On the Loose in Boston, was published in 2009. More

On Election Day in 1996, TheAtlantic.com launched a weekly editorial cartoon feature drawn by Sage Stossel and named (aptly enough) "Sage, Ink." Since then, Stossel's whimsical work has been featured by the New York Times Week in Review, CNN Headline News, Cartoon Arts International/The New York Times Syndicate, The Boston Globe, Nieman Reports, Editorial Humor, The Provincetown Banner (for which she received a 2009 New England Press Association Award), and elsewhere. Her work has also been included in Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, (2005, 2006, 2009, and 2010 editions) and Attack of the Political Cartoonists. Her children's book, On the Loose in Boston, was published in June 2009.

Sage Stossel grew up in a suburb of Boston and attended Harvard University, where she majored in English and American Literature and Languages and did a weekly cartoon strip about college life, called "Jody," for the Harvard Crimson. From 2004 to 2007, she served as Books Editor of the Radcliffe Quarterly

After college she took what was intended to be a temporary summer position securing electronic rights to articles from The Atlantic's archive for use online. Intrigued by The Atlantic's rich history and the creative possibilities in helping to launch a digital edition of the magazine on the Web, she soon joined The Atlantic full time. As the site's former executive editor, she was involved in everything from contributing reviews,  author interviews, and illustrations, to hosting message boards and producing a digital edition of The Atlantic for the Web.

Stossel lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SNL's Emma Stone Episode: 5 Best Scenes

By Sage Stossel
Nov 13 2011, 8:37 AM ET Comment

[The ever-appealing Emma Stone returned to host SNL for a second time, in an episode that improved as the night progressed. Stone's boyfriend and Amazing Spider-man co-star Andrew Garfield joined her in the monologue, and Coldplay's Chris Martin made cameo appearances in two sketches.]

Some highlights...

The Devil (Jason Sudeikis) drops by Weekend Update to comment on the Penn State child abuse scandal (and identifies, incidentally, which parts of the Internet he's responsible for: comments sections, buffering, Facebook picture-tagging, and Terms of Service agreements):





Backup singer "Jan" (Coldplay's Chris Martin) joins Garth and Kat on Weekend Update as they promote their new holiday album (featuring such hits as "Pilgrims Are Always Friendly Unless They're Pushed to Their Limits"):





Ancient reporter Herb Welch (Bill Hader) is back, and attacks androgynous apartment coop president Kristin Wiig inappropriately with the microphone (as both struggle not to crack up):





Nasim Pedrad's strange coworker Wallace (Emma Stone) is unclear on the concept of appropriate bridal shower etiquette (featuring Fred Armisen as "the human toilet"):





Cold open—G.O.P. debate: Mitt Romey attempts to put Rick Perry out of his misery Mice and Men-style during a protracted brain-freeze:





[Regrettably, the night's best sketch, in which no one can resist the sob-inducing angst of Adel's "Someone Like You," is not online. Nor is Les Jeunes de Paris, in which Emma Stone and Taran Killam show off their Parisian dance moves with help from the Red Balloon, a fleet of Tour de France bicyclists, and Napoleon.]

Musical guest Coldplay performed Paradise and Every Tear Is a Waterfall

NEXT WEEK: Jason Segel, with musical guest Florence + the Machine.

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