Category: Writing

My Left Hand vs My Right Hand: Creativity Revisited

Breaking a bone is common, but when it happens to you, it’s all consuming. I broke my arm a few months back, and wrote about it for The New York Times. For the first time in my life, during the healing process, I couldn’t draw with my right hand. I got to know my left had very well, and wrote about it. The Times published some of the drawings and writing about the experience in the Sunday Op Ed section (7/22/18) and online. Here is the link.

During the months of healing, The New Yorker published one of my drawings that I did with my left hand!

And here are some of the drawings.

January 8, 2016

Liza Writes As Guest Columnist For Washington Post About Festival D’Angouleme And Women

Liza is fortunate to frequent many international festivals as either a speaker or a guest, and many of them are French. The French adore and admire cartoons. One of the largest cartoon festivals in the world is in Angouleme, France, called Festval D’Angouleme, and it has been in operation for 43 years. This year, controversy arose when it became known that among the 30 nominees for their prestigious prize, Grand Prix, there was not a single woman. And only one woman has won in the history of the event. Liza was invited to write about this snub for the Washington Post. Here is her piece: “France’s greatest comics festival just snubbed women. Here is what the event doesn’t get.”

Drawing by Sarah McIntyre