An upcoming issue of The Comics Journal featuring an interview with Pia Guerra coupled with her recent appearance on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (along with her writing partner, Ian Boothby) has caused me to think a little this morning about the relatively modern jump in “dedicated” and public partnerships in The New Yorker‘s cartoonist stable. In the podcast, Ms.
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Event Of Interest: Sara Lautman And Liza Donnelly At Politics & Prose Sara Lautman (below, left) will join Liza Donnelly at Politics & Prose, March 18th, to kick off the release of Ms. Donnelly’s new expanded edition of her must-have Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists. All the info here. __________________________________________ Pia Guerra & Ian Boothby On The
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: a static digital Fall. The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. Two duos that we know of: Pia Guerra & Ian Boothby, and Liza Donnelly & Carl Kissin (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No
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Interview Of Interest From Comics DC, December 30, 2020, “A Chat With DC Born Cartoonist Liza Donnelly” — an interview with Ms. Donnelly* whose first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1982. Her entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 –. Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women
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