Portrait of the Cartoonist
as a Woman

Liza Donnelly is the author of Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons. A contract cartoonist, she is also the editor of the anthology Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love. Along with her husband, Michael Maslin, she wrote Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony with The New Yorker’s Cartooning Couple, and her newest book is When Do They Serve The Wine?: The Folly, Fun and Flexibility of Being a Woman (Chronicle Books, 2011). Donnelly is a founding member of Cartooning for Peace and teaches at Vassar College.

Photograph by Craig Semetko.