New Yorker Cartoonist to Discuss Her Art and New Book

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY – New Yorker magazine cartoonist Liza Donnelly will speak about her art and her new book Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Female Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, on Thursday, November 10, at 5:30 p.m. in Sanders Auditorium. Her lecture is free and open to the public.

Donnelly has published in the New Yorker for twenty-six years, and was one of only three women cartoonists with the magazine when she began in 1979. Through her seventy selected cartoons, Funny Ladies (Prometheus Books, 2005) provides a distinct glimpse into American society, from the time of the New Yorker’s first female cartoonist in the Roaring 20s to the present. Her narrative for the book explores the creative process, the relationship between artists and editors, and the personalities of the New Yorker’s female cartoonists (photographs and self-portraits of the cartoonists are also featured).

The Nation magazine columnist Katha Pollitt wrote, “Next time someone tells you women aren't funny, give them Funny Ladies and watch them try not to laugh!”

A Rhinebeck, NY resident, Donnelly has also contributed cartoons and illustrations to the New York Times, The Nation and Cosmopolitan magazines, and a number of other national publications. She previously edited four other collections of cartoons, including Mothers and Daughters, and, with Michael Maslin, Fathers and Sons, Husbands and Wives, and Call Me When You Reach Nirvana. In addition, Donnelly is the author and illustrator of a series of children’s books about dinosaurs.

Liza Donnelly’s talk at Vassar is sponsored by the department of English, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, and the programs in American Culture and Women’s Studies. For more information, please contact Judith Nichols, adjunct associate professor of English, at (845) 437-5656 and junichols@vassar.edu.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Cathy Jennings in the Office of Campus Activities, at (845) 437-5370.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1861.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

This article was posted on Monday, October 31st, 2005.