Liza Donnelly on Women, Humor, and The New Yorker

Norm sits down with longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly for a conversation about her more than four decades in cartooning. Liza talks about tracing James Thurber cartoons as a kid in Watergate-era Washington, the two years she spent submitting to The New Yorker before Lee Lorenz bought her first drawing in 1979, and her parallel life as a digital live-drawing journalist for CBS News, CNN, and The New Yorker, covering everything from the Oscar red carpet to the second E. Jean Carroll trial. She also gets into Cartooning for Peace, her research for Funny Ladies and Very Funny Ladies, and her new documentary Women Laughing, co-directed with Kathleen Hughes. For upcoming screenings check https://www.womenlaughingfilm.com/screenings Produced by Norm Magnusson, Jennifer Hammoud, and Matty Rosenberg @ radiofreerhinecliff.org Send comments to [email protected]