Opening book details…
Can I read Very Funny Ladies : The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons on EtoBox?
Very Funny Ladies : The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons by Liza Donnelly is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Very Funny Ladies : The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons about?
It’s no secret that most New Yorker readers flip through the magazine to look at the cartoons before they ever lay eyes on a word of the text. But what isn’t generally known is that over the decades a growing cadre of women artists have contributed to the witty, memorable cartoons that readers look forward to each week. Now Liza Donnelly, herself a renowned cartoonist with the New Yorker for more than twenty years, has written this wonderful, in-depth celebration of women cartoonists who have graced the pages of the famous magazine from the Roaring Twenties to the present day. An anthology of funny, poignant, and entertaining cartoons, biographical sketches, and social history all in one, VeryFunny Ladies offers a unique slant on 20th-century and early 21st-century America through the humorous perspectives of the talented women who have captured in pictures and captions many of the key social issues of their time. As someone who understands firsthand the cartoonist’s art, Donnelly is in a position to offer distinctive insights on the creative process, the relationships between artists and editors, what it means to be a female cartoonist, and the personalities of the other New Yorke
Who reads Very Funny Ladies : The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Liza Donnelly
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated; Prometheus
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781633886865
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Humor, Language Learning, Art
Other editions & translations
More by Liza Donnelly
Browse all works by Liza Donnelly
Similar books
- I Only Read It for the Cartoons : the New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists — Richard Gehr (2020)
- At Wit's End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker — Alen MacWeeney (2024)
- The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons : Revised and Updated — Robert Mankoff; Lee Lorenz (2012)
- The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons by the World's Greatest Cartoonists — Eckstein, Bob, editor (2019)
- The New Yorker Book of Baseball Cartoons New Yorker — Michael Crawford Robert Mankoff (2012)
- Drawn to Purpose : American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists — Martha H. Kennedy, Carla D. Hayden (2018)