With the Supreme Court Ruling striking down rights for women When women were finally given autonomy over their bodies with the landmark Roe V Wade ruling in 1973, I was in high school in Washington, DC. Although too young to be personally affected, I understood its significance. The ruling was…

Live drawing the Oslo Freedom Forum I just got back from Oslo, where I live drew the Oslo Freedom Forum, as I have done for 7 years now. It is an amazing conference, with speakers from around the world, many of whom are dissidents and activists for global and local…

Concern for the world mirrors a similar gathering in 1939 I was invited by the organization PEN America, to attend and live-draw a special session at the United Nations yesterday. The leadership at PEN gathered member writers to speak at what they called an Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers…

SCOTUS’s end of Roe V Wade Is an attack on women’s liberty — I have begun live drawing daily again, and this was yesterday’s live draw. If you want to watch me draw and talk ( or try to, sometimes in a halting manner because I’m drawing), join me every weekday at 5pm ET. Link below. This idea came out of two merging…

The end of Roe V Wade Right before falling asleep last night, a NYTimes alert came in that told me that the US Supreme Court may vote against Roe V. Wade. It was a leaked draft that showed the vote of the members of the court; Chief Justice Roberts…

The year that will go down in history — I love drawing the Oscars because I love film and stories. I love the actors, directors, screenwriters, all of it. This is my 8th year live drawing the awards show; but I have been watching every year all my life. That said, this was the most unique show to date…

Sometimes you get it wrong I wonder what was going on in the mind of this cartoonist, Barbara Shermund, when she wrote this cartoon (above) in the 1930’s. Did she intend to have the men saying that even women make mistakes, i.e. “women are human;” or did she intend this…

My favorite New Yorker cartoonist My favorite cartoonist from the early days of The New Yorker was Barbara Shermund. When she died in 1978, a real obit was not written for her at the time because the NY Times was on strike that year (assuming they would have done…

In 2005, after two years of research and writing, Funny Ladies:The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons was published. It was so wonderful to spend time in the New Yorker archives, living in the past while reading correspondence between artists and editors at the iconic magazine. It…