Women Laughing: Screening + Q&A (Cartoon Art Museum)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join us for a screening and Q&A of Liza Donnelly and Kathleen Hughes’s documentary film Women Laughing, about humor and cartooning by women cartoonists from The New Yorker magazine. The screening will be followed by a Q&A and reception with Liza Donnelly and cartoonist colleagues Amy Kurzweil, Kate Isenberg, and Polly Lou Adams. Tickets for event are $10 and can be purchased in advance through the following link:

Ticket link: https://guestli.st/815899

About Women Laughing:

Women Laughing is a documentary celebrating women cartoonists of The New Yorker from the 1920s to present day. Liza Donnelly converses, laughs and draws with some of the most celebrated and groundbreaking cartoonists at The New Yorker. The film also looks back at the lives of some of the pioneering women cartoonists whose remarkable stories have been overlooked.

Women Laughing involves conversations with cartoonists of The New Yorker such as Roz Chast, Emily Flake, Sarah Akinterinwa, Liana Fink, Amy Hwang, Bishakh Som, Emily Hopkins, Maggie Larson, Arenza Pena-Popo and Victoria Roberts. Liza also speaks with Emma Allen, the magazine’s first female cartoon editor. Collectively they reflect on the work of women cartoonists, challenges that lie ahead, what drives them, obstacles they’ve faced, creative processes and more.

Women Laughing is a joyful celebration of women, art, and the creative spirit. It offers a unique insider’s look at the state of women’s humor over the last century, through the perspectives of the pioneering cartoonists, then and now, who have wrestled with some of the central social issues of our time.

https://www.womenlaughingfilm.com/about

About Guest Speakers:

Liza Donnelly is a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker, writing about culture and politics for forty years. She writes and draws for The New York Times, CNN Opinion pages, and The Washington Post. Her popular Ted Talk, Drawing on Humor for Change, received 1.5 million views and was translated into 42 languages. Her Substack newsletter of politics, writing and cartoons, called Seeing Things, has over 150,000 subscribers.

Donnelly innovated a new form of digital visual journalism, live-drawing. She has covered the presidential debates, protest marches, the Oscars, Grammys, State of The Union, and much more for CBS News, CNN and The New Yorker.

Donnelly is the author/editor of eighteen books for adults and children, most notably Very Funny Ladies, a history of women cartoonists of The New Yorker. Her work has been in numerous exhibitions globally, including the Library of Congress Prints Collection and The Museum of Illustration. While also curating exhibits of international cartoonists, here and abroad.

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir (2016) and Artificial: A Love Story (2023). She won the Oversea’s Press Club’s 2024 “Best Cartoon Award for her comics with the LA Times, and she has been nominated multiple times for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award. Her work has also been published in The Believer Magazine, The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, Longreads, Literary Hub, WIRED, and many other places. Amy teaches widely. Visit amykurzweil.com for more info.

Kate Isenberg is a New Yorker cartoonist and multimedia artist whose work has also appeared in Alta, The New Republic, Narrative, and Air Mail. She adapted her comic strip, Stewball, into an animated short film (Dear Death), which won a Matt Groening Production Fellowship; she is now developing a Stewball graphic novel. Learn more at www.kateisenberg.com or via Instagram (@thekateisenberg).

Polly Lou Adams is a cartoonist, writer, and artist currently based in Northern California. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Rumpus, The Drift, and elsewhere. You can learn more at pollylouadams.com, or follow her Substack, The Poop Scoop, for rejected cartoons and semi-regular diary comics.

Cast and Crew of Women Laughing:

Directed by KATHLEEN HUGHES and LIZA DONNELLY

Produced by JUDITH MIZRACHY LIZA DONNELLY and NATHALIE SEAVER

Executive Producers KATIE COURIC  RUTH ANN HARNISCH  MELONY LEWIS  LAUREN LEXTON and CLAIRE F. NEWMAN

Cinematography by MARIKA HACKING and FRANCESCO SAVIANO

Editor ANDREW FREDERICKS | Consulting Editor KATE AMEND

Music KATHRYN BOSTIC | Art Direction MATT ELLER/AFTERNOON INC.

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