OCTOBER 19, 2005 - Reception and Talk:
Liza Donnelly author,
speaking about her latest book: 'Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest
Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons'
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
7:00PM
Columbus Metropolitan Library - auditorium
96 S. State Street
Columbus, OH
Co-sponsored by the Ohio State University Cartoon
Research Library and the Friends of the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Free and open to the public
Book Description
It's no secret that most New Yorker readers flip
through the magazine to look at the cartoons before they ever lay eyes
on a word of the text. But what isn't generally known is that over the
decades a growing cadre of women artists have contributed to the witty,
memorable cartoons that readers look forward to each week. Now Liza
Donnelly, herself a renowned cartoonist with the New Yorker for more
than twenty years, has written this wonderful, in-depth celebration of
women cartoonists who have graced the pages of the famous magazine from
the Roaring Twenties to the present day. An anthology of funny, poignant,
and entertaining cartoons, biographical sketches, and social history all
in one, Funny Ladies offers a unique slant on 20th-century and~early 21st-century
America through the humorous perspectives of the talented women who have
captured in pictures and captions many of the key social issues of their
time. As someone who understands firsthand the cartoonist's art, Donnelly
is in a position to offer distinctive insights on the creative process,
the relationships between artists and editors, what it means to be a female
cartoonist, and the personalities of the other New Yorker women cartoonists,
whom she has known over the years.
Funny Ladies reveals never-before-published material from
The New Yorker archives, including correspondence from Harold Ross, Katharine
White, and many others. In addition, Donnelly has interviewed all of the
living female cartoonists, many of their male counterparts, and editors
and writers: Roger Angel, Lee Lorenz, Lillian Ross, Harriet Walden
(legendary editor William Shawn's secretary), Bob Mankoff, William
Hamilton, Eldon Dedini, Dana Fradon, Frank Model, Bob Web, Sam Gross, Gahan
Wilson, Joe Farris, among others.
Combining a wealth of information with an engaging and
charming narrative, plus more than seventy cartoons, along with photographs
and self-portraits of the cartoonists, Funny Ladies beautifully portrays
the art and contributions of the brilliant female cartoonists in America's
greatest magazine.
About the Author
Liza Donnelly (Rhinebeck, NY) has been a cartoonist for
The New Yorker for twenty-two years. When she started, she was one of only
three women cartoonists being published by the magazine at that time. Ms.
Donnelly is the author of the Dinosaur series of illustrated children's
books and has edited four collections of cartoons, including Mothers and
Daughters, and, with Michael Maslin, Fathers and Sons, Husbands
and Wives, and Call Me When You Reach Nirvana. She has also contributed
cartoons and illustrations to The New York Times, The Nation, Cosmopolitan,
and
Hardcover: 214 pages Publisher: Prometheus Books (October
3, 2005)
For additional information contact the Cartoon Research
Library at 614-292-0538 or via e-mail at cartoons@osu.edu