'Very Funny Ladies' sketches out the history of women cartoonists at 'The New Yorker'
Cartoonist and writer Liza Donnelly began drawing some 60 years ago, when she was around 7, after her mother gave her a book by James Thurber. She started tracing his art, and it made her mom smile.
"I was kind of hooked because I got a nice reaction," says Donnelly, who is now a long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine.
She initially wanted to be a political cartoonist, though she says she didn't think she had enough opinions to do that. There also weren't many women political cartoonists at the time, but that didn't deter Donnelly from trying to make a career from her drawing.
"I just wanted to be a cartoonist. So I paid attention to theshe says. "I focused on . I thought, 'well, they have political cartoons. Maybe I can do something along that kind of political."
