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Liza Donnelly

@lizadonnelly.bsky.social

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New Yorker cartoonist and writer, Substack called Seeing Things. substack.com/lizadonnelly Director: Women Laughing documentary. womenlaughingfilm.com Gonna change world with humor.

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · Jul 21

WOMEN LAUGHING is a new documentary about women cartoonists of The New Yorker, past and present. We hope to release it this year, but need help with post production, and are doing a kickstarter right now. Consider helping us tell these women's stories! THANK YOU!
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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you!

Marcia Imbrescia @mecistudio.bsky.social · 15h

It's surprisingly soothing and uplifting to watch Liza draw smiling people. As the inflatables in Portland, OR prove, it's important to keep joy in our life!

Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 18h

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Thank you!

Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 5h

Sunday Spill: Barbara Shermund… Harvey Award Hall Of Famer; Latest Addition To The Spill Library…The New Yorker: L’Humour Des Femmes
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Sunday Spill: Barbara Shermund… Harvey Award Hall Of Famer; Latest Addition To The Spill Library…The New Yorker: L’Humour Des Femmes

Barbara Shermund…Harvey Award Hall of Famer

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 18h

Live With Liza: Smiling People

We have to have joy as we resist

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 19h

Live With Liza: Smiling People.

Live With Liza: Smiling People

We have to have joy as we resist

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, October 6-10, 2025; Liza Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” NYC Premiere At DOCNYC; Isaiah Legette Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Saturday Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, October 6-10, 2025; Liza Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” NYC Premiere At DOCNYC; Isaiah Legette Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

The Tilley Watch Online, October 6-10, 2025

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy Leads To Peace.

Democracy Leads To Peace

And my documentary is premiering in NYC!

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 2d

Friday Spill: Peter Arno Inducted Into The Society Of Illustrators Hall Of Fame; Who’s At This Weekend’s NYC Comic Con; Donnelly, Galindo, Arroyo Receive Awards At French Cartoon Festival

Friday Spill: Peter Arno Inducted Into The Society Of Illustrators Hall Of Fame; Who’s At This Weekend’s NYC Comic Con; Donnelly, Galindo, Arroyo Receive Awards At French Cartoon Festival

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 2d

GO CHICAGO: ICE Free Zones!

GO CHICAGO: ICE Free Zones!

And a silly scarf drawing

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 3d

Video: How Portland Is Reacting to Trump’s National Guard Threat

In the days before President Trump announced that he would send troops to what he called a “war-ravaged” Portland, Ore., federal officers had described the protests there as “low energy.” Anna Griffin...

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 3d

Thurber Thursday: “What The Beginning Writer Needs”
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Thurber Thursday: “What The Beginning Writer Needs”

What The Beginning Writer Needs

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 3d

It's Our Country.

It's Our Country

We are not all beholden to Trump's desires

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 4d

Looking With A Camera: A Morning In Paris

Looking With A Camera: A Morning In Paris

Dogs, artichokes, birds, pastries, etc

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 4d

October 6, 2025
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October 6, 2025

If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 4d

Trump Floats The Insurrection Act.

Trump Floats The Insurrection Act

And lies about things over and over again

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Reposted by Liza Donnelly

Kimi Wei @kimiwei.bsky.social · 5d

British Academic @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social is tracking Trump's anti-democratic actions and actions showing disdain for rule of law behaviour. Check it out.

h/t to @lizadonnelly.bsky.social for the find. It's a good one.

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours. It’s a one-stop-shop for logging the lot. And the meta-anal...

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 5d

Tuesday Spill: Pub Day For Tom Toro’s Cartoon Collection “And To Think We Started As A Book Club…”
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Tuesday Spill: Pub Day For Tom Toro’s Cartoon Collection “And To Think We Started As A Book Club…”

Pub Day for Tom Toro’s Cartoon Collection

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 6d

Trump Is Trying To Create Chaos

Trump Is Trying To Create Chaos

This past weekend in France, I talked with numerous international editorial cartoonists about what’s happening in our country.

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 6d

Sunday Spill: “At Wit’s End” Redux.

Sunday Spill: “At Wit’s End” Redux

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 6d

Countryside.

It’s late Sunday night here in France, and I’m crashing.

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 9d

Looking With A Camera: NYC

Looking With A Camera: NYC

And international cartoonists on a bus

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 9d

October 1, 2025
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October 1, 2025

Last night, as the government barreled toward a shutdown, President Donald J.

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 9d

The Shutdown's Even Darker Side.

The Shutdown's Even Darker Side

Project 2025 may do more damage

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you, Jane.

Thank you, Jane

For making quiet patience powerful

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Liza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 11d

Love this.

#WhatsGoodNYC? Let's ask Jimmy Kimmel, who's back in NYC again with a week of shows Monday 9/29–Friday 10/3! #KimmelinBrooklyn @Jimmy Kimmel Live

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