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Liza Donnelly is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Her cartoons have appeared regularly in the magazine since 1982, at which time she was the youngest and one of only three women cartoonists at the magazine.
The topics of her cartoons are subject to a broad examination of life, from politics to the most banal aspects of relationships, child-rearing and city-life neurosis. Her work has appeared in many other national publications, including the New York Times, The Nation, Audubon, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, National Lampoon, American Photographer, Scholastic News, and Cobblestone. Donnelly conceived of and edited three collections of cartoons for Ballantine Books called Mothers and Daughters, Fathers and Sons and Husbands and Wives (the last two in partnership with her husband cartoonist Michael Maslin). She has illustrated numerous adult books and has written and illustrated a childrens series of seven dinosaur books for Scholastic, Inc., which together sold over two million copies. Donnelly also wrote Funny Ladies: The New Yorkers Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, a book about the history of the women cartoonists of The New Yorker. She is currently writing a book on the history of cartoons and comics. Donnelly is a frequent lecturer, and is on the faculty at Vassar College.

Donnelly has been a member of the Authors Guild since 1984, and was a founding member of the Cartoonists Association. She lives in New York with her husband and their two daughters.

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