Tag: cartoons

Year-End in Cartoons with CBS News

Over the course of 2017, I live drew many events and people for CBS News. I had such a blast, and look forward to 2018! 

 Here is a short selection from their website. 

Here are a few other highlights:

 

Liza Donnelly is “The Observer” – Noteworthy by Medium

It was an honor to be selected as a Noteworthy Writer for Medium, a wonderful online publication started by Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter.  I have been publishing with Medium for years now, and I love the simplicity of the design and their mission statement. It is a place for my writing and drawing (together and alone) that  is supportive and yet also leaves me alone to do what I feel I need to do!   In the introduction to this wonderful brief video, the Medium editors say I was chosen  “…for finding nuance in the news cycle, Liza sketches everything that can’t be said.”   https://noteworthy.medium.com/liza-donnelly-c848c1d06ac4

Director: Matthew Miller
Creative Director: Spencer Somers
Producer: Jacqueline Legan
Director of Photography: Kevin Phillips 
Editor: Matthew Miller, Jeremy Bowditch Animation: Arthur Jones
 
Produced by Standard Time

How A Not Funny Cartoon About Hurricanes Might Happen: video

Everyday, ideas present themselves. Sometimes I don’t notice them. Sometimes I have to chase them down. The best ones are ones that present themselves, I let them develop but don’t chase them. Chasing often leads to false sounding/seeming ideas. Forced.

Here is a case where I wanted to do a regular old cartoon about whatever, not political, I was open to anything. As you see from the cartoon above, it ended up being about the hurricanes we are experiencing in this country and in the islands. It may not be funny, you may think it’s stupid, doesn’t work, etc. But the process shows how it came about. In this way, I don’t think it’s forced. And it’s about a topic I eventually wanted to draw about anyway at some point: the pain and suffering we are witnessing, and the tremendous empathy we are witnessing in this country.

Here is a video of my process as I did the cartoon on my tablet (I posted this on Instagram and retreaved it a little late so the first piece is gone, sorry) Umbrella video

 

 

 

NBC News: Donnelly is “a pioneer of on-the-fly sketching of live events — an art she calls tweet-drawing”

Lauren Prince, a reporter for NBC News,  got in touch with Liza before the New York Primary and asked if she could videotape her live drawing of the evening’s returns as she watched them.  They had a great time talking politics, watching the returns, and discussing new media.  Here is the article Prince wrote about Liza, and she did a Snapchat during the evening as well.  According to Prince,  within moments of beginning, the NBC Snapchat had 100 viewers.

Here is the piece on NBCNews.com