Liza Donnelly

allthingsnewgirl: This continues to be my opinion about the...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:28:53 -0400

allthingsnewgirl:

This continues to be my opinion about the hiatus…

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizadonnelly/2013/06/14/will-question...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:28:00 -0400

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizadonnelly/2013/06/14/will-questioning-the-status-quo-help-women/

Women And The Art Of Controversy

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:32:54 -0400

Women And The Art Of Controversy:

Former Nation editor Victor Navasky, discusses the power of political cartooning in his important new book, The Art of Controversy. What he leaves out is also important: political cartoonists who are women.

lolzpicx: They see me rollin’

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:37:50 -0400

lolzpicx:

They see me rollin’

Ways To Express Freedom: The Third Annual International Festival Of Political Cartooning In Caen, France

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:37:31 -0400

Ways To Express Freedom: The Third Annual International Festival Of Political Cartooning In Caen, France:

What happens when political cartoonists from around the world gather in one place for a week and share their passion for what they do?

Rape and Humor: the Steubenville Case

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:01:56 -0400

Had it not been for social media, we might not know about the horrible things that were done to the young woman that night in Steubenville, Ohio. Sadly, the attitude and behavior of the young football players, to a degree, is perhaps played out all over the country every weekend. Alcohol fueled rowdy group conduct can lead to horrible misconduct; in this case, it led to a form of gang rape.

This morning, I watched a video of one of the young men who was present that night. Watch it at your own risk–it is disturbing. The cell-phone video is trained directly on one young boy for twelve minutes as he delivers one liners about rape, death and the young woman, over and over again to the laughter of a some in the room. My shock at what was being said was compounded with wondering why is the camera focusing solely on him. At one point, the person doing the filming is heard to laughingly say to his subject, “I’m going to watch this over and over again.” It dawned on me: this young man in front of the camera is a wanna-be comedian. He is telling jokes made at the expense of a passed out, violated young woman (who is not in the room).

There is a strain of comedy in our country that makes fun of others beyond the bounds of civility. I am not saying that derogatory humor aimed at insulting, harassing, belittling and ridiculing women is gang rape, but it is a kind of shared, group attack that many feel is okay to do. Because it is shared by a large number of people in the room (auditorium, computer screen), it is somehow acceptable. Humor is a powerful tool and when used in this way is extremely hurtful to others, and worse. It continually perpetuates disrespect and hate in our society.

newyorker: Cartoon by Michael Maslin. For...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:32:09 -0500

newyorker:

Cartoon by Michael Maslin. For more: http://nyr.kr/YKSrNb

Boobs Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:53:56 -0500

I was happily surprised at all the blow-back about Seth McFarlane’s performance at the Oscars. The New Yorker was critical, as were The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Salon. Smaller sites that focus on women’s rights, like Jezebel and Feministing weighed in as well, as did Ms. Magazine

But the days following all the coverage, I found myself a bit dejected: haven’t we been here before? When will misogyny not rank as high quality humor? Granted, humor equality is not high on the list of things we need to fix for women in the world. But we need to fix it, because I think it is symptomatic of the larger issues.

Humor in a society is reflective of what a culture values and doesn’t value, that’s how humor works. It takes what we know, the given in our society, and twists it–and that is what elicits the laugh. The unexpected makes us laugh. So when Mr. McFarlane sang a song about boobs, many of us did not laugh. It isn’t funny anymore. Not only is it humor we have heard from comedians since the dawn of time, we heard the same jokes in grade school. If the song about breasts in film were not enough, McFarlane went on to do jokes about battered women, bulimia, racial and religious profiling.

This type of humor is not only not top quality humor, it’s offensive. If McFarlane and others want to practice it, they have the right. But as a society, we cannot condone sexist, racist and homophobic humor as anything but wrong.

We need to loudly maintain a new standard for what is funny. We are beginning to do so, with the rise of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Even in this regard, we have been here before. Whoopi Goldberg rose to fame decades ago as representative of a new standard of humor in the age of Andrew Dice Clay. Cultural sexism rises and falls with each generation, but I think each time it is getting less and less. For this reason, we–men and women– have to keep pushing out new forms of humor, and not let the old fashioned male standard of humor continue to be seen as what is “good.”

Or maybe we should just go back to the fourth grade.

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Valentine's Day Thoughts

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:14:55 -0500

My column on this cartoon, and others, for Valentines Day.

Wait-Where's My Game Face?

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:48:24 -0500

For the article that goes with this cartoon, please visit my Forbes Column

How Pink Made Me Think: ...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:08:21 -0500

How Pink Made Me Think:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizadonnelly/2013/01/03/how-pink-made-me-think/

skeptv: Inside a cartoonist’s world - Liza Donnelly View full...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:05:09 -0500

skeptv:

Inside a cartoonist’s world - Liza Donnelly

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/inside-a-cartoonist-s-world-liza-donnelly

From cave drawings to the Sunday paper, artists have been visualizing ideas — cartoons — for centuries. New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly walks us through the many stages every cartoon goes through, starting with an idea and turning into something that connects us on a deeply human level.

Lesson by Liza Donnelly, animation by TED-Ed.

by TED Education.

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Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:08:03 -0500

The little girl in this cartoon just woke up on the morning of...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:25:08 -0500

The little girl in this cartoon just woke up on the morning of January 1, 2013–and she was expecting things to be different. She’ll have to learn that in time, the year may look different than the previous year. It may not be different much at all. It also may take some insight to see how it is different, which she will hopefully have someday when she’s older.

We ring in each new year, make resolutions, have hopes, dreams and aspirations. What we do know is that we can actually do things to make a given year better–it doesn’t have to be an accident.

Thank you for helping to make my year a good one. I really appreciate your attention to my words and cartoons here –without you, it would be kind of silly to keep doing this. I enjoy sharing my thoughts with you and hopefully I can make you laugh.

So, thank you. I wish you all a very good 2013. And let’s see what we can do to make 2013 a better year than 2012.

Too Much Violence. Article here:...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:45:32 -0500

Too Much Violence.

Article here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizadonnelly/2012/12/17/drawn-to-cope-with-violence/

Inside the Creative Mind (And Heart) Of One New Yorker Cartoonist

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:28:16 -0500

Inside the Creative Mind (And Heart) Of One New Yorker Cartoonist:

VIctoria Roberts has been with The New Yorker since 1988. I chatted with her about her work there and her new novel, After The Fall.

Last week, I saw a post on tumblr that both outraged me and...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:57:20 -0500

Last week, I saw a post on tumblr that both outraged me and encouraged me. The post was a photo of a young woman holding a sign that read:

“I need feminism because my university teaches ‘How to avoid rape’ instead of ‘Don’t rape’ at freshman orientation.”

It angered me because of the idea that, in this day and age, university officials would not take the time to think before creating such a class. But it encouraged me because of the realization that some young people do indeed get it, they understand the problem and won’t stand for it. I wish there were more.

It motivated me to create the above cartoon. Yes, more women are entering jobs once held only by men, women are CEOs of major companies, women are successful in many ways in our country. But so many are not. It may be subtle and hard to see sometimes, but I believe we live in a culture that is often sexist on a day-to-day basis. We live in a society where some still blame women for others’ inexcusable behavior, and it is supported in our institutions, media and advertising. It’s time to foster respect and understanding, this is what feminism is about. And we need to do whatever it takes to end rape culture. An article in Ebony by Zerlina Maxwell lays out the problem: we need a paradigm shift in the way we look at rape in this country.

What We Need Is A Good Old-Fashioned Scandal (Cartoon VIDEO)

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:16:20 -0500

What We Need Is A Good Old-Fashioned Scandal (Cartoon VIDEO)

newyorker: He whittled down wooden blocks to make a whole...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:39:19 -0500

newyorker:

He whittled down wooden blocks to make a whole bunch of pens, matchboxes, postcards. He made speech bubbles with quarter-inch wood, geometric shapes, notebooks, all drawn upon and painted with ink and wax crayons. Then he’d glue them to large sheets of wood, making dioramas of his life…

- Anton von Dalon, speaking about his friend, the artist Saul Steinberg. Steinberg’s “Union Square, 1973” is featured on the cover of this week’s issue. Click-through for more on the artist, and for a slideshow featuring some of the 87 New Yorker covers he published in his lifetime: http://nyr.kr/QWcgjT

sittingovation: Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton snap photos...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:37:55 -0500

sittingovation:

Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton snap photos with Meryl’s iPhone at the Kennedy Center State Dinner, Saturday December 1st in Washington D.C

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