I was interviewed by a friend who blogs for Planet Green. Very nice interview!  Thanks, Ronnie!

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/interview-cartoonist-liza-donnelly.html

Here is a blog post I wrote about my trip to France for the cartoon festival, RIDEP. The New Yorker’s cartoonbank.com, which is the site that promotes and sells all things cartoon, kindly posted this entry. Hope to do more in the future.

http://blog.cartoonbank.com/2010/02/17/cartoonist-in-france/

Our New Yorker colleague, cartoonist Matt Diffee, hosts a regular music/comedy evening in New York City. It’s called The Steam Powered Hour, and features contemporary bluegrass music and comedy and cartoons. This Valentines Day, he invited my husband Michael and I to “perform”, whatever that means!  Come join us!  Featuring music by Reckon So and The Sassy Jenkins, and Colbert writer, Frank Lesser.

For more info:

http://www.villagevoice.com/events/steam-powered-hour-matinee-valentines-day-edition-hosted-by-matthew-diffee-1643159/

On Tuesday, January 19th, I participated in a press conference at the headquarters of Amnesty International in Paris to speak about RIDEP, the well-known cartoon conference that is held annually in Carquefou, France. What was unusual about this was that it was a press conference of cartoonists who are women, talking about what it means in their countries to be women cartoonists.  The women participating in the festival (although not all were at the press conference) were: Hana Hajjar from Saudi Arabia, Caroline Rutz from Switzerland, Firoozeh Muzaffari from Iran, Marlene Pohle from Germany (and also Argentina), Cathy Wilcox from Australia, Dominique LeMarie and  Corrine Rey from France.

Beth Arnold, a writer friend who lives in Paris and who writes a blog for Huffingtonpost.com, was at the conference and posted two items on the conference and festival:

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Tomorrow, I was invited to travel  to another French cartoon festival, this time in Carquefou.  They are honoring women cartoonists this year, and I look forward to meeting cartoonists from around the world who are women. Much of the work is political, and while I work for The New Yorker, my work is often political–either socially or culturally.  I hope to blog for The New Yorker about the events. I will also write about it for Women’s Enews and blog for the Cartoonbank.com

The 11th Rencontres Internationales du Dessins de Presse (RIDEP)

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I have been doing drawings and some writing for a new site, dscriber.com for a few months. Last week, I wrote about the Danish Cartoon Controversy, and the recent events that were in the news. You can read the post here.

The post is titled “Recast”.   It will be a regular feature on dscriber, and the name comes from the fact that the cartoons that will be posted there will always be cartoons of mine that The New Yorker choose not to buy. I do around six every week, so I have a lot of work that does not get published by them. Dscriber is a wonderful site and I am happy to have them there.  If so moved, please comment!

http://dscriber.com/home/980-a-few-thoughts-on-provocative-cartoons-from-a-cartoonist.html

The Exhibition, Cartoons in Conflict that opened in NYC last month has traveled to London, and will open at St. Martin in the Fields. One of my drawings in the show appears on your left.

New Yorker Holiday after-party dinner at Cafe Un Deux Trois in Manhattan. Photos by Felipe Galindo (Feggo)

Left to right: Jack Ziegler, Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, PC Vey, David Sipress, Paul Noth, Ward Sutton, Emily Flake, Carolita Johnson, Michael Crawford, Drew Dernavich, Joe Dator, Sam Gross, Bob Eckstein, John O’Brien, Bob Mankoff, Felipe Galindo, Michael Maslin

A closer shot, left to right: John O’Brien, Bob Mankoff, Felipe Galindo, Michael Maslin, Jack Ziegler, Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, PC Vey

Carolita Johnson, Emily Flake, Andy Friedman

Join me at the opening of this Exhibition of cartoons from all over the world about the conflict in the Middle East.

The standard for reporting on women’s issues worldwide is upheld by the site womenseNews.org.  They cover issues and concerns about women around the world, and no one compares to them. I feel fortunate to have joined their roster of amazing writers and correspondents as a contributor of cartoons. Here is my second cartoon for the site. I also feel honored to be a cartoon contributor next to one of my cartoon heros, Nicole Hollander.