Twelve Publishers - Liza Donnelly

Liza Donnelly has been a cartoonist for over twenty years. A contract cartoonist with The New Yorker, her work has also appeared in the New York Times, National Lampoon, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and other publications, as well as regular features in American Photographer, Parenttime.com, Oxygen.com and TONEaudio.com. Liza edited several collections of cartoons for Ballantine and Andrews and McMeel, and wrote and illustrated a series of children's books for Scholastic that sold over two million copies. Her previous book, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus Books, 2005), is a cultural history of women cartoonists and The New Yorker. Well-reviewed, it is widely considered indispensable for historians of the magazine and cartoon fans. In 2004, Liza wrote an essay for The New Yorker on cartoonist Helen Hokinson.

Liza is a participant in a traveling exhibition of international political cartoons called Cartooning For Peace, launched in 2006 at a forum at the United Nations. They continue to speak around the world, and Liza is working on a book about the initiative with Emory University and French cartoonist Plantu. She teaches courses on Cartoons in American Culture and Women and Humor at Vassar College. A native of Washington, DC, Liza currently lives in New York. (Representation: David Kuhn, Kuhn Projects)