New Yorker Cartoonists of the Hudson Valley at the Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery
Along with original New Yorker cartoons, Michael Maslin and Liza Donnelly will be present at a reception and book signing event at the gallery on Friday, October 21, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Copies of their recent books include, Women On Men, a collection of Donnelly’s cartoons and writing which was a finalist for the well-known humor award in 2014, The Thurber Prize; Donnelly authoredWhen Do They Serve The Wine?, The Folly, Flexibility and Fun of Being a Woman, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, a history of the women who drew cartoons for the magazine, Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love in 200 Cartoons and Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony with the New Yorker’s Cartooning Couple (with Michael Maslin). Donnelly conceived of and edited three collections of cartoons for Ballantine Books calledMothers and Daughters, Fathers and Sons, and Husbands and Wives (the last two with Michael Maslin). Husbands and Wives and another collection for Andrews and McMeel entitled Call Me When You Reach Nirvana were collections of Ms. Donnelly’s and Mr. Maslin’s cartoons.
Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Suite F, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.