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Publication: April 2, 2008
Media contact: Cary Goldstein
212-264-1266; cary.goldstein@hbgusa.com
www.twelvebooks.com

“SEX AND SENSIBILITY flaunts the sass and wit of 10 eminent artists — many of whom are regular contributors to the New Yorker — who’ve mastered the satisfying one-two punch of image and caption.”
—San Francisco Bay Guardian

Internet dating, adultery, and women’s lib; S&M, sex toys, and threesomes —
SEX AND SENSIBILITY covers it all. And then some…

These 200 brilliant cartoons forge new ground in the proverbial battle of the sexes. Most of these selections could never have been published before, either for being too risqué, or for tackling an aspect of love that simply didn’t exist, such as texting. Made up of predominantly unpublished cartoons SEX AND SENSIBILITY incisively captures the nuances of 21st century romance—or lack there of. Eight of the ten SEX AND SENSIBILITY artists are regular contributors to The New Yorker, and two are Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonists. Together they not only nail what it means to be modern and in love, they also offer searing insights into the ways that women’s thoughts on the subject have changed, and how the cartooning and humor industries have reflected that, from it’s earliest peaks in the 20s with Dorothy Parker, Mae West and their ilk, to its low points in the 50s and the subsequent feminist resurgence in the 60s and 70s, to its varied and brilliant incarnations today.

SEX AND SENSIBILITY: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love . . . in 200 Cartoons, edited by Liza Donnelly, will be published by Twelve on April 2, 2008 (ISBN: 0-446-19815-3; $22.99). For more information, or to arrange for an interview with Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, or any other contributor, please contact Cary Goldstein, Director of Publicity, at 212-364-1266, cary.goldstein@hbgusa.com. 

About the Editor

Liza Donnelly has been a cartoonist for over twenty years. A contract cartoonist with the New Yorker, her work has also appeared in the New York Times, National Lampoon, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and other publications, as well as regular features in American Photographer, Parenttime.com, Oxygen.com and TONEaudio.com. Liza edited several collections of cartoons for Ballantine and Andrews and McMeel, and wrote and illustrated a series of children’s books for Scholastic that sold over two million copies. Her previous book, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus Books, 2005), is a cultural history of women cartoonists and the New Yorker. Well-reviewed, it is widely considered indispensable for historians of the magazine and cartoon fans. In 2004, Liza wrote an essay for the New Yorker on cartoonist Helen Hokinson.  Liza is a participant in a traveling exhibition of international political cartoons called Cartooning For Peace, launched in 2006 at a forum at the United Nations. They continue to speak around the world, and Liza is working on a book about the initiative with Emory University and French cartoonist Plantu. She teaches courses on Cartoons in American Culture and Women and Humor at Vassar College. A native of Washington, DC, Liza currently lives in New York.

A new site called thefrisky put up a slide show of some of the cartoons from the book… http://www.thefrisky.com/post/sex_and_sensibility/

After a day of thinking about the party, I came up with a list of some of the creative types that were there. It was great- we got a mix of people from The New Yorker and elsewhere. Cartoonists in the book who attended: Roz Chast, Barbara Smaller, Julia Suits, Victoria Roberts , Carolita Johnson, Signe Wilkinson. Marisa Acocella Marchetto had a family emergency, Ann Telnaes was on jury duty (darn), and Kim Warp was unable to come.

Also there: New Yorker cartoonists , Sam Gross, Robert Leighton, Feggo (Felipe Galindo), Arnold Roth, Farley Katz, Eric Lewis, Michael Maslin, Martha Gradisher; Academy Awards Nominee animator Bill Plympton, internationally renowned political cartoonist Jeff Danzinger , Mark Alan Stamaty (amazing comic artist), Kathy Osborn (New Yorker cover artist and author), Roxie Munro (New Yorker cover artist and author), Signe Baumane (animator).

Writers: New Yorker columnist and essayist Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker writer Bill Franzen, former NYTimes food critic Bryan Miller, Emily Gordon of Print magazine and the great blog emdashes, Kevin Fitzpatrick, writer and President of the Dorothy Parker Society, authors Tom Soter, Phil Sicker. Writer Amanda ReCupido was there from Galleycat, George Rush from The Daily News

Then of course there were many many people from other professions…just thought I would list the cartoonists and writers that I know and met. Some very dear friends came from my college days, and other parts of my life. Not to mention one of our (Michael Maslin is my hubby) daughters, Ella Maslin and her boyfriend Nick Imperial! Our other daughter Gretchen is traveling at the moment and couldn’t come. Let me know if I left anyone out, and I apologize!

There is a piece by Amanda ReCupido in galley cat today, check it out:

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/party_hopping/default.asp 

Just a heads up: we are having two more parties soon: April 17, 5:30-9, at the Society of Illustrators and

April 30th at The Algonquin! 6:30-8:30.  Hope you can come! Cartoon caption contest! more info on sex and sensibility page…

The publisher, Jonthan Karp and publicist Cary Goldstein threw a great party last night (April 1st) for the publication of Sex and Sensibility at The Museum of Sex on Fifth Avenue. What a great venue–lots of interesting (and humorous) sex artifacts surrounded us as we laughed and drank and ate. http://www.museumofsex.com/ We had a captionless cartoon by Julia Suits made into a poster, got partygoers to submit captions…and Jonathan, Cary and I will select the winning caption. The winner will get a signed, framed print of a cartoon! When we get the final caption for the cartoon, you can see it here. Liza

I was so consumed with talking, I just took only a few photos, darn! But here are a few samples.

Names: photo 1: me, Roz Chast, Sam Gross; photo 2: Julia Suits, Derek Van Geiser, Sam Gross, Eric Lewis, Victoria Roberts; photo 3: MichaelMaslin, Emily Gordon; photo 4: Jonathan Karp; photo 5: Jeff Danzinger, Victoria Roberts; photo 6: Fellipe Galindo, Bill Plympton, Roz Chast; photo 7: Bill Franzen, Kathy Osborne; photo 8: Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane.

You may have noticed, if you have been to my site before, that things have changed. I decided that I wanted to be able to change images frequently and write text more often on my site, so I asked my webmaster Tom Stier to reformat things. I still have to add stuff to the sex and sensibility and photo pages–so stay tuned. And, I also wanted to converse with those of you who visit–on politics (I have never been so energized by an election, and my enthusiasm is not for the guy who’s getting all the positive press), The New Yorker, cartoons in general, whatever. So leave a post if you are so inclined. Cheers!