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Read [Liza Donnelly Book] * Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons fascinating history of women in an unusual niche This is not a cartoon collection, it's a history - but it does include cartoons by every one of the cartoonists mentioned. It slightly before the founding of The New Yorker, with how the magazine came to be, and how Ross's independent wife (her name was Jane Grant, and she didn't change it when she got married) was an influence on what he expected the readership of the magazine to be, and who he would accept as writers and illustrators.S. BIG LAUG
| Title | : | Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591023440 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 217 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
In addition, Donnelly has interviewed all of the living female cartoonists, many of their male counterparts, and editors and writers: David Remnick, Roger Angell, Lee Lorenz, Harriet Walden (legendary editor Harold Ross’s secretary), Bob Mankoff, Eldon Dedini, Dana Fradon, Frank Model, Bob Weber, Sam Gross, Gahan Wilson, Joe Farris, among others.Combining a wealth of information with an engaging and charming narrative, plus more than seventy cartoons, along with photographs and self-portraits of the cartoonists, Funny Ladies beautifu
Donnelly, a cartoonist herself, got access to the New Yorker's vast library of correspondence, so the book is full of in-depth accounts of spats between cartoonists such as Helen Hokinson and Barbara Shermund and legendary editors Harold Ross and Wallace Shawn. The result is a bonanza for those looking for raw material to analyze society's changing attitudes toward women and humor as reflected in the most highbrow of magazines. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. As history, Funny Ladies is essential, but it can't match the eloquence of the cartoons. All rights reserved. . From Publishers Weekly Business, golf and kids have all got their own cartoon spotlights via The
fascinating history of women in an unusual niche This is not a cartoon collection, it's a history - but it does include cartoons by every one of the cartoonists mentioned. It slightly before the founding of The New Yorker, with how the magazine came to be, and how Ross's independent wife (her name was Jane Grant, and she didn't change it when she got married) was an influence on what he expected the readership of the magazine to be, and who he would accept as writers and illustrators.S. BIG LAUGHS AND NEW YORKER LADIES I bought this book because I have long been a fan of New Yorker cartoons, though mainly those printed before 1970. This book gives some wonderful history on the forgotten women cartoonists of the New Yorker, especially Helen Hokinson, Mary Petty, and Barbara Shermund and is worth buying for that and the cartoons alone. However, a huge chunk of the book is taken up with the author's own story and the work of numerous newer (and in my opin. do not buy KINDLE edition!!! Love the book but the KINDLE edition is full of flaws: spelling errors, faulty paragraph alignment and - worst of all - no links to the footnotes whose numbering is also off. I would have loved to follow up on some of her sources but the notes are simply not there. This is my first bad experience with a KINDLE book, though
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