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Why Fish?

Humor finds its subjects

3 min readSep 13, 2023

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It’s not clear to me why I have so many fish drawings. My rule of thumb, however, is that you never know where you will find humor. Or where it will find you.

Here is one I did last week.

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I have spent time fishing, on the Jersey shore; then later, fly fishing in Wyoming as a teenager on a hiking program in the Wind River Mountain Range (that was fun). But I have not gone fishing for many decades. It seems I just find fish, and the act of fishing, a good place to find humor. It’s one of those things humans do that is funny.

Here is one The New Yorker published a few years ago.

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I had a tropical fish tank when I was a kid, a project that I did with my father. I loved that, it was fun sharing that with him. This one below I drew many years ago, it was never published anywhere (you can see my style has changed since then).

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There are so many aspects to fish! And I don’t think I have done any undersea drawings. This next one is a…

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Liza Donnelly
Liza Donnelly

Written by Liza Donnelly

Visual journalist/writer for New Yorker. Producer/director of documentary Women Laughing. Looking to change world w humor. https://www.womenlaughingfilm.com/