Liza Donnelly’s 2026 Live Oscar Drawings Long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly, has been live-drawing the Oscars for many-a-year (she made history by being the first to draw on the red carpet — something she did for seven years). When not on the red carpet she’s drawn the action as it plays out on the telly (as she did this
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Happy Oscars Day, for those who are interested. Here’s a New Yorker drawing from the vault, published in the issue of June 26, 1989 :
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A Good Book I discovered Joe Mitchell‘s delightful My Ears Are Bent when I was researching my biography of Peter Arno. All of the pieces were written when Mitchell was a newspaperman, before he joined The New Yorker in 1938. Of particular interest to Spill readers are Mr. Mitchell’s three pieces on three stellar New Yorker artists: William Steig, Helen
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Liza Donnelly Returns to The Oscars Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982, is returning to live-draw the Oscars. This will mark her 6th appearance at the big show. She announced her return this morning on her Substack, Seeing Things. Read all about it here. Ms. Donnelly made history by being the first-ever cartoonist to live-draw on
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