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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New Kickstarter Campaign Launches For Liza Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Documentary Film Liza Donnelly, who began contributing to The New Yorker over forty years ago, has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to help bring her documentary film, Women Laughing, out into the world. Link here to the Women Laughing Kickstarter Here’s Liza on the film: “I’ve spent the last year co-directing
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Last night, in the company of Liza Donnelly, I spent a few hours touring the Swann Galleries Illustration auction preview in Manhattan — looking over a goodly number of New Yorker original art. Besides seeing the art (Jack Ziegler! Peter Steiner! Mick Stevens! J.B. “Bud” Handelsman! Chast! Tom Toro! Suba! Robert Weber! George Booth!…and more) we were there for
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Summertime Cartoon I came across the below Richard Decker New Yorker drawing the other day (it was published June 28, 1952, not quite midway in his 38 year year run at the magazine). This drawing has so much going for it, I had to stay with it for awhile. I’ve no idea if it was
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