New Yorker Cartoonists Will Discuss “Is Cartooning Art?” Tuesday, October 24, 2006

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — Liza Donnelly, a cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine and an adjunct professor of English at Vassar College, will be joined by three fellow New Yorker cartoonists for the panel discussion "The Art of Cartooning: Is Cartooning Art?" on Tuesday, October 24, at 7:00 p.m., in the Villard Room in Main Building. Donnelly will moderate the discussion with Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, and Peter Steiner, and this event is free and open to the public.

Liza Donnelly was one of only three women cartoonists at The New Yorker when she began with the magazine in 1979. She is the author of Funny Ladies (2005), a collection of seventy cartoons that examines American society from the 1920s – when The New Yorker hired their first female cartoonist – to the present. 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. Donnelly is also the author and illustrator of a series of children's books about dinosaurs.

Roz Chast's cartoons and covers have appeared in The New Yorker since 1978, as well as such publications as Scientific American, Redbook, and Travel & Leisure. Her latest cartoon collection, Theories of Everything, will be released this fall.

Since 1958, Lee Lorenz has published over seventeen hundred drawings in The New Yorker. He was the art editor of the magazine from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor until 1997. Lorenz was also on the first board of The Cartoon Museum and served as advisor to The Swann Foundation for Cartoon and Caricature. His books include The Art of The New Yorker (1995), The World of William Steig (1998), and monographs on New Yorker cartoonists Charles Barsotti (1998), George Booth (1999), and Jack Zeigler (2000).

Peter Steiner sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1979. He recently completed two series of paintings – of 50 portraits, and of 36 self-portraits – and is now working on another portrait series. His first novel, A French County Murder, was published in 2003, and his second will be published in 2007.

The program in American Culture, the art and English departments, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty are co-sponsors for this panel discussion. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations at Vassar should contact 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 Tuesday, October 10th, 2006.