Pub Day For Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists
It’s the “official” pub day for Liza Donnelly’s new edition of her 2005 classic Funny Ladies. This new edition is a must-have for any cartoon-centric library (I’d say that even if I wasn’t married to Ms. Donnelly).
This morning I reached out to Ms. Donnelly, currently in Manhattan, and soon on her way out west for several events, including a talk at the Schulz Museum and an appearance at SXSW with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, and New Yorker cartoonist colleagues, Zoe Si and Navied Mahdavian.
I caught her as she was finishing up her weekly batch of cartoons for The New Yorker and asked her if she’d mind putting down her crow quill pen for a moment to say a few words for Spill readers:
“The book was pure joy to write. I loved discovering more about the women artists in The New Yorker’s past and shining a light on them. The New Yorker now has an equal number of men and women drawing cartoons for the magazine, as well as more diversity, and it’s very exciting.”
To order a signed copy of Very Funny Ladies, visit the Oblong Books site here.