Women Cartoonists are Profiled (Liza D & Co)
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Liza Donnelly is on a streak profiling cartoonists as part of her Women Laughing documentary.
Among the cartoonists are
Bishakh Som
She was trained at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Architcture, but always drew comics and incorporates architectural ideas in her graphic novel work. In 2018, she sold her first drawing to The New Yorker.
Emily Flake
She sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 2008, and her work has also appeared The New York Times, Time and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002.
Liana Finck
Liana’s style is light and airy, instrospective, at times playfull but can be biting in the clarity of her observations. She often draws very personal cartoons about motherhood and marriage.
Sarah Akinterinwa
Her work explores dating, relationships, identity, politics, and navigating adult life as a young woman of color. Her cartoons featuring this couple began being published in The New Yorker in 2020.
Amy Hwang
Amy’s cartoons are very much like Amy herself. She has a dry wit, and keen observational eye on the human condition, which she often portrays through the mouths of her wonderful cat characters. An architect by training, Amy is a graduate of Barnard College, and she started drawing cartoons while in college for the school paper.
More like the above will be coming to Liza Donnelly’s Seeing Things substack.
And now for something completely similar.
The above mentioned Liana Finck recent interviewed…
Roz Chast
Today’s post is an interview with Roz Chast, who is my favorite – just is, always will be. She has some new puzzles out with Workmen Publishing: second avenue line + ad infinitum.
LF: You do a lot of short-form art (cartoons, and big cartoons), but you’ve also made books – kids books, cartoon collections, graphic novels. Your books flow naturally, and they’re also not like any other books I’ve read – the graphic novels are something between cartoons and comics and prose. How do you arrive at structure? I’m sorry to be so mealy-mouthed. Feel free to rephrase my question better. Please.
RC: I have never learned how to draw cartoons or make books the “correct” way. Every time I’ve put together a book, there’s a lot of anxiety, especially at the beginning. I’m feeling my way through it. Whatever I’ve learned from the previous book never seems to apply to the next book. It’s like following a thread. There’s a lot of false starts. Also false middles and false ends. Writing, rewriting, drawing, redrawing. The structure seems to reveal itself as I’m working on whatever I’m working on. Or I always hope it does. I’m never sure whether it’s going to hold together.
Then coming up next month is a lecture by
Ann Telnaes
The 40th Annual Silha Lecture — “Stop Drawing . . . Or Else: A Cartoonist’s View on Democracy’s Perilous Moment” — will feature Ann Telnaes, the 2001 and 2025 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. Telnaes formerly was the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post.
She will be joined by Roslyn Mazer, free expression advocate and author of the amicus brief for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell.
As noted: The 2025 Silha Lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.
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