Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc At The Athena Film Festival Liza Donnelly, a long time New Yorker contributor, co-directed (with Kathy Hughes) this short documentary film. From the Festival’s website: In Women Laughing, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for women’s humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with a diverse group of remarkable women who
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I hopefully will forever be surprised by foreign edition Thurber covers. Google translated the below Czechoslovakian title to “The Philosopher and the Oyster” — one of the fables in Thurber’s 1956 Further Fables For Our Time. The cover drawing is definitely not an oyster, it’s supposed to be a toad…I suppose a toad could be philosophical. This book… is this
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Video Of Interest…Liza Donnelly On “The D-Word” Long-time New Yorker cartoonist (and now film director), Liza Donnelly appears on The D-Word, “the leading community for documentary professionals worldwide” to discuss her documentary film, Women Laughing. See it here ____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On An Eldon Dedini Original A Spill fave site, Attempted Bloggery looks at New Yorker original art
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First and Last…Nora Benjamin Another in a Spill continuing series looking at a contributor’s very first New Yorker drawing and very last. Today we take a look at Nora Benjamin’s First and Last. Here’s her Spill A-Z: Born, New York City, January 4, 1899. Died, Connecticut, September 8, 1988. New Yorker work: Five drawings between May 12, 1928 – April
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