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Liza Donnelly

Liza Donnelly is a writer and award-winning cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine and resident cartoonist for CBS News. Her drawings and writing can also be seen in The New York Times, Medium, Forbes, Politico and other major publications. She is the author/editor of 18 books. Her latest book, Women On Men, was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. She is the creator of a new digital visual reporting/editorial cartooning called live-drawing. She was the first cartoonist to be granted access on location to live draw the Academy Awards; she has also live drawn the Grammys, Tonys, the 2016 Democratic Convention and more.

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No joke: Dave Barry to serve as finalist judge in Bombeck Writing Competition

Want a shot at having your humorous musings judged by someone who's a master at writing funny? Pulitizer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry will serve as the finalist judge in the humor writing category of the 2018 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, according to Debe Dockins, coordinator of the competition at the Washington-Centerville Public Library. "Inviting writers to judge the Erma contest has become a science for me - who can turn a phrase just so? Does this judge's writing style remi ...
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Papa had another stone

It may come as a shock to you that I can't get pregnant. The reason, of course, is that I am too old. But that did not stop a doctor from sending me for a sonogram. This procedure, which is often performed on pregnant women, was done on me recently, not because I was expecting a baby, unlikely since I am still infantile myself, but because I had a kidney stone. Unfortunately, it wasn't my first. It was my fifth. Or sixth. I have lost count, mostly under the influence of painkilling drugs, ...
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