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I just returned from giving a talk at the first ever TEDWomen in Washington, DC. It was an amazing two days, and I wrote about it today on my blog. There you will find a slide show of many of the speakers and of the exhibit I curated. Many thanks to Pat Mitchell for inviting me to speak at what for me was a life-changing event.  And I met some amazing people.  My hope is that this will bring more awareness to the issues concerning women, and also increase  the number of speakers who are women at TED conferences in the future. I also wrote a blog for The New Yorker on my talk.

Launch Party for When Do They Serve The Wine?

Zachary Kanin,Drew Dernavich, Barbara Smaller, Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast

November 17th, The Society of Illustrators and Chronicle Books held a fun event to celebrate the publication of my new book,

When Do They Serve The Wine? We began with a round table discussion about style and voice, with the above New Yorker Cartoonists.  Then the party!  For a slide show of photos, go to: http://whendotheyservethewine.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/launch-party/

Slide show from When Do They Serve The Wine?

For the past three years, I have been contributing weekly cartoons for a website called wowowow.com.  It is the brainchild of publishing wonderwoman Joni Evans.

Every time I  publish a book, Joni and her team have kindly done a slide show for me.  Interestingly, When Do They Serve The Wine? was inspired by Joni.  Right after my last book  Sex and Sensibility,  Joni took me to lunch near the wowowow offices. I asked her what she would suggest my next book be.  I figured she is a master at knowing publishing trends, so why not get her input?  What she said was “women of a certain age” (I am paraphrasing).  She continued to explain that older women are a huge demographic with spending power, and I would do well to create a book for them.  So I decided to write about the generations of a woman’s life, including youth and old age. What I am discovering is that women of all ages–and men–love this book. This makes me very happy, as I think the different ages of women need to speak to one another more.   And is there a better way to connect than through humor?  I think not.   Thank you, Joni!

Here is the slide show they created for my new book.

Liza and Jean Plantu

On Monday, Oct 16, I joined 11 other cartoonists at the United Nations for a Seminar titled “Cartooning For Peace: The Responsibility of Political Cartoonists?” There were two panels, one discussing the role of cartoonists in educating their readers, and another on whether or not this responsibility abridges rights. This was the fifth in a series sponsored at the UN under the umbrella topic “Unlearning Intolerance”.

My colleagues were: Cintia Bolio (Mexico), Baha Boukari (Palestine), Jeff Danziger (USA) Carsten Graabaek (Denmark), Michael Kichka (Israel), Mike Luckovich (USA), Rana Lurie (United States), Gado (Kenya), Jean Plantu (France), Ann Telnaes (United States), Norio Yamanoi (Japan). It was a great pleasure to meet a variety of cartoonists from many countries, and to share our work and our beliefs.

Liza and Jean Plantu