Women Laughing, “a documentary film about the women cartoonists of The New Yorker, past and present,” will have its world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival, October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM (est) at The Woodstock Community Center. (It will also be shown at two other, as yet unannounced, NYC/ Metro area festivals later this Fall). Text from the Festival
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Liza Donnelly On Emily Flake Long time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly continues her series of mini-essays on the cartoonists featured in her upcoming documentary, Women Laughing. Here’s her latest entry: “The Cartoons Of Emily Flake.” Ms. Flake (shown left) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008. Visit her website here. –Above: An Emily Flake drawing from The New
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A Mick Stevens Exhibit On Martha’s Vineyard One of the funniest people on the planet will be exhibiting (some of) his New Yorker work beginning this week. Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. Mick Stevens A-Z Entry: Mick Stevens Born March 11, 1942, Portland, Oregon. New Yorker work: December 17, 1979- . Key collections: If Ducks
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Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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