Here’s an older, rejected cartoon. I have promotion on my mind because that’s what I’ve been doing a lot of this past week.
Publishers don’t promote anymore, unless you’re famous. So authors have to drum up any and all attention, events, interviews that we can. I am working my contacts like nobody’s business. It’s not unpleasant, just a bit complicated trying to keep dates and names straight as I write bookstores, venues and media outlets.
Here is another cartoon, one that The New Yorker did buy and publish a decade or more ago.
The book I’m putting the word out on is a joy to promote because it’s not entirely about me, it’s about the women cartoonists of The New Yorker, past and present. I was so happy to discover the ones from the past and learn more about them. And then last year I had a blast zooming one by one some of the new women whom The New Yorker has brought in. I also zoomed with some of my seasoned female cartoonist friends, whom I’ve known for over 30 years, just to catch up.
Some of the events I’m doing—some virtual and, so far, in person— are panels of us women. I really look forward to it.
So far, I will be at SXSW, The Schulz Museum, Oblong Books, Politics and Prose Bookstore, the 92nd St Y in NYC. Am still waiting on several other bookstores in NYC and California to get back to me. I will have the complete list on my website soon.
Below is a photo that was taken in 2018 at WNYC right before we went on-air with Brian Lehrer. It happened during an exhibition I curated at The Society of Illustrators in NYC about the women cartoonists of The New Yorker. The show was a celebration of the fact that an issue of the magazine in 2017 had more women cartoonists than me, a first in its history (a fact discovered by my husband, Michael Maslin, cartoonist and historian of the mag). Now there are equal numbers of men and women drawing cartoons, roughly 40/40.
When I started there were four of us: Roz Chast, Nurit Karlin, Roz Zanango and me.
Roz Chast, Liana Finck, me, Emily Flake.
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