Kickstarter Campaign Begins For “Women Laughing” A Documentary Film By Liza Donnelly
Well this is fun news. As someone who has always delighted in seeing New Yorker cartoonists and their work on the big screen (and has been, at times frustrated that there is so little footage of our founding mothers and fathers) I’m delighted to report that long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly, has begun a Kickstarter campaign for her documentary film, Women Laughing.
Here’s some promotional text (go to the Kickstarter page link above to learn more about the film and the Women Laughing filmmaking team):
“In WOMEN LAUGHING, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for humor and cartooning by talking with, and sometimes drawing with, other funny women. These fantastic and groundbreaking women will include the iconic Roz Chast; Amy Hwang, the magazine’s first Asian woman cartoonist; stand up cartoonist Emily Flake; and Bishakh Som, the magazine’s first trans woman cartoonist, among others.”
More…
Link here to the Women Laughing website.
Link here to Liza Donnelly’s website.
Liza Donnelly’s A-Z entry:
Liza Donnelly (pictured above) Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 -. Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus, 2005). A new edition, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, was published in 2022 by Prometheus. Edited: Sex & Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love…in 200 Cartoons (Twelve, 2008). Co-authored with Michael Maslin: Husbands & Wives (Ballantine 1995), Call Me When You Reach Nirvana (Andrew & McMeel, 1995), Cartoon Marriage (with Michael Maslin) (Random House, 2009), When Do They Serve the Wine? (Chronicle, 2010). Women On Men (Narrative Library, 2013). Donnelly also wrote and illustrated a popular series of dinosaur books for children (Dinosaur Day, Dinosaur Beach, Dinosaur Halloween, etc.) all published by Scholastic.
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–– full disclosure: Liza Donnelly and I are married.