A Donnelly two-fer: a UPI spotlight & When Do They Serve the Wine? now an E-book

Posted on 1st May 2013 in News

 

 

From UPI, May 2, 2013, “Cartoonist Liza Donnelly: One of The New Yorker’s ‘funny ladies’”

Liza Donnelly’s 2010 book When Do They Serve the Wine?  is available as of today as an E-book from Chronicle Books. Roz Chast wrote the Intro.

Liza Donnelly on the 3rd Annual Festival of Political Cartooning

Posted on 26th April 2013 in News

 

 

From forbes.com, April 25, 2013, “Ways to Express Freedom: The Third Annual International Festival of Political Cartooning in Caen, France”Liza Donnelly, back from the festival, reports (with drawings from her sketchbook, including the one above).

New film on New Yorker Cartoonists: “Very Semi-Serious”

Posted on 18th April 2013 in News

We’ve known that Leah Wolchok has been hard at work on her film about New Yorker cartoonists and thought this was an excellent time to check in with her (Ink Spill will revisit Very Semi-Serious in a matter of weeks).  We asked Leah to describe her film, and give us an idea of who’s in it (so far). Here’s what she had to say:

 

Very Semi-Serious is an offbeat meditation on humor, art and the genius of the single panel.  The film takes an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the 88-year old New Yorker and introduces the cartooning legends and hopefuls who create the iconic cartoons that have inspired, baffled—and occasionally pissed off—all of us for decades.

The film has been a labor of love and obsession for 6 ½ years. The film is supported by Tribeca Film Institute, IFP, the Pacific Pioneer Fund, Women Make Movies and BAVC. We are working closely with cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, and we’ve interviewed a dozen cartoonists, including Roz Chast, Michael Maslin, Liza Donnelly, Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, Lee Lorenz, Matt Diffee, Drew Dernavich, Zach Kanin, Emily Flake, Liam Walsh and Liana Finck, who recently published her first cartoon in The New Yorker.  Next up is Bruce Eric Kaplan. 

We’ve also filmed scenes with Gahan Wilson, PC Vey, Sidney Harris, David Sipress, Mike Twohy, Joe Dator, Bob Eckstein, Robert Leighton, Farley Katz, Benjamin Schwartz, Carolita Johnson, Felippe Galindo, David Borchardt, Corey Pandolph, Paul Noth and Barbara Smaller.

Jack Ziegler and Andy Friedman both created original artwork for the film.

In a few weeks we are launching our website and trailer, featuring animation, interviews and never-before-seen footage from the New Yorker headquarters, cartoonists’ studios and inside the homes of caption contest devotees.  Plus a killer ping pong match between Bob Mankoff and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

3rd Festival of International Editorial Cartoons in Caen this week. Liza Donnelly part of festivities

Posted on 8th April 2013 in News

 

 

The 3rd Festival of International Cartoons is happening this week in Caen.  Our own Liza Donnelly was invited to participate.

Here’s a link to a the festival’s website (apparently in French only).

Interviews: Barsotti, Donnelly; Warp on Her Endowed Oscar; Brains and Cartoons

Posted on 7th March 2013 in News

From The Comics Journal, March 7, 2013, the latest installment of Richard Gehr’s “Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist”: Charles Barsotti

And:

An interview with Liza Donnelly as part of Judy Clement Wall’s Creativity Interviews, March 7, 2013.

 

From newyorker.com, two cartoonist-centered  pieces:

Bob Mankoff’s blog features Kim Warp talking about her Oscar themed drawing  in the current issue of The New Yorker

And:

From the Culture Desk, this recap by Sarah Larson of a recent event devoted to exploring “the mental processes involved in creating and understanding cartoons” — Paul Noth, Zach Kanin, and David Sipress were present to show and tell.

 

 

 

Mankoff blog: Cartoonists at Work, at Play.

Posted on 27th February 2013 in News

From The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff’s weekly blog, “There’s No Place Like Work” this meditation on the office (with a photo including, among others,  Felipe Galindo, P.C. Vey, Gahan Wilson, Liza Donnelly, Paul Noth, and Andy Friedman).

Chast, Stevens, Donnelly and Diffee have a go at the Etch A Sketch app

Posted on 8th February 2013 in News

 

From Bob Mankoff’s blog @ newyorker.com, February 7, 2013, “Kvetch A Sketch” Roz Chast, Mick Stevens, Liza Donnelly (whose drawing appears above) and Matt Diffee give the Etch A Sketch app a whirl.

Video: Liza Donnelly Talks Cartoons and Animation

Posted on 20th January 2013 in News

 

From TedEd, January 17, 2013, “What’s the difference between animators and cartoonists?” – this two part video.  Donnelly, who recently worked with TedEd in making a short animation about her process of creating cartoons, speaks with one of the TedEd animators involved in the project.

Attempted Bloggery @ a New Yorker Cartoon Auction

Posted on 28th December 2012 in News

From  Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery, December 27, 2012, “New Yorker Cartoons at Auction” wherein  Mr. Nadler fully examines an auction of New Yorker cartoons at The Morton Library in Rhinecliff, New York this past November.

Shanahan & Donnelly’s Online Cartoon Collection; Joe Farris Exhibition; Victoria Roberts Draws at NYC’s Strand Bookstore; Bruce Kaplan’s new show; Chast & Popeye; More Steinberg

Posted on 21st December 2012 in News

 

From The Huffington Post, December 21, 2012,  this online only collection of cartoons by Danny Shanahan and Liza Donnelly for Moms Clean Air Force.

 

From CTpost. com, December 18, 2012, “New Yorker artist’s work on view in Bethel”

–This post on long time New Yorker contributor, Joe Farris

 

 

From the blog, East Village, December 19, 2012, “Victoria Roberts Sketches at The Strand”

 

From Deadline Hollywood, December 14, 2012, “HBO Orders Comedy Pilot From Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jason Reitman And Lorne Michaels”

 

From cartoonbrew, December 14, 2012, “Popeye Comics Get Cool” — ( with Roz Chast content).

 

 

 

 

 

MORE STEINBERG:

From The Stamford Advocate, December 20, 2012, “New Haven Biographer Examines Famed New Yorker Cartoonist” –This interview with Deirdre Bair, the author of Saul Steinberg: A Biography.

and:

From Pace University, this interview with Ms. Bair. “Prof. Denning Interviews Bestselling /Biographer Deidre Bair” (the interview must be downloaded).

and:

From The Observer, December 18, 2012, “The Life of The New Yorker’s Favorite Depressive is Drawn Out in New Bio”