Liza Donnelly—VERY FUNNY LADIES - with Sara Lautman
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It's no secret that most New Yorker readers flip through the magazine to look at the cartoons before they ever lay eyes on a word of the text. But what isn't generally known is that over the decades a growing cadre of women artists have contributed to the witty, memorable cartoons that readers look forward to each week. Now Liza Donnelly, herself a renowned cartoonist with the New Yorker for more than twenty years, has written this wonderful, in-depth celebration of women cartoonists who have graced the pages of the famous magazine from the Roaring Twenties to the present day.
An anthology of funny, poignant, and entertaining cartoons, biographical sketches, and social history all in one, Very Funny Ladies offers a unique slant on 20th-century and early 21st-century America through the humorous perspectives of the talented women who have captured in pictures and captions many of the key social issues of their time.
Liza Donnelly has been a cartoonist for The New Yorker for over 30 years. When she started, she was one of only three women cartoonists being published by the magazine at that time. Ms. Donnelly has written and illustrated a series of children's books about dinosaurs and has edited four collections of cartoons. She has also contributed cartoons and illustrations to The New York Times, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, and many other national magazines.
Sara Lautman is a cartoonist who lives in Baltimore. Her work has been published by The New York Times, Playboy, MAD, The Paris Review, and she is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. She is the author of the collections I Love You, and The Ultimate Laugh, as well as many zines and minicomics. Her graphic novel, Jason, will be published in 2022 by Diskette Press. She teaches comics in the Humanistic Studies department at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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