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The Creativity And Humor Of Women
Update on my Women Laughing documentary!
Until fairly recently, the number of women who practice the art of cartooning has been a lot fewer than the number of men. I wrote a book about it, and now I have produced and directed a documentary on the subject! It’s all about the women cartoonists at The New Yorker, now and then, called Women Laughing!
The film has been so fun to make. I loved collaborating with my colleagues, be they cartoonists or filmmakers. We just finished filming, but we still need post production funds for the color/sound correction, and archival licenses, and today we launched a second kickstarter to get the film out into the world — online and in festivals.
We decided the film should in essence be about creativity, and my co-director Kathy Hughes and I structured it so that I sat and drew with the cartoonists as we talked about our work. It made for some very interesting and funny conversations. And the drawings that resulted are wonderful.
Among those I sat and drew with was Roz Chast.
This is what the two of us doodled as we talked, our drawings combined as we turned the page around. Can you identify Roz’s and mine?
