Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin

Liza Donnelly is the author of Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons. A contract cartoonist, she is also the editor of the anthology Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love. Along with her husband, Michael Maslin, she wrote Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony with The New Yorker’s Cartooning Couple, and her newest book is When Do They Serve The Wine?: The Folly, Fun and Flexibility of Being a Woman (Chronicle Books, 2011). Donnelly is a founding member of Cartooning for Peace and teaches at Vassar College.

Photograph by Craig Semetko.
 

Michael Maslin is the author of six collections of cartoons, including The More the Merrier; The Gang’s All Here; The Crowd Goes Wild; and Mixed Company. Along with his wife, the cartoonist Liz Donnelly, he edited Fathers & Sons. His work appears in several anthologies, among them The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, and The New Yorker Cartoons of the Year, 2012. Maslin was born in New Jersey, received a BFA from the University of Connecticut, and lives in Rhinebeck, New York, with his wife and two children.