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, VeryFunny
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. Very 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: David Remnick,Roger Angell, Lee Lorenz,
Harriet Walden (legendary editor Harold Ross's secretary), Bob
Mankoff, Eldon Dedini, Dana Fradon, Frank Model, Bob Weber, 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, Very Funny Ladies beautifully portrays the art and
contributions of the brilliant female cartoonists in America's
greatest magazine.
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