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  • New Yorker cartoonist and children's book author Nurit Karlin died April 30 at a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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    Drawing upon humor for change

    From 'The New Yorker' to Tel Aviv: Political cartoonist Liza Donnelly heads for Animix.

    By HANNAH BROWNUpdated: SEPTEMBER 5,
    "I started drawing cartoons to make my mother laugh,” says Liza Donnelly, a cartoonist for The New Yorker who will appear at the 12th Animix Festival at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, an international festival of comics and animated films. The festival will run from August The festival features a dazzling array of exhibits, workshops, classes and events that will provide some much-needed relief from the heat and summer doldrums for kids, teens and anyone with an interest in cartoons and may not know Donnelly’s name, but anyone who reads The New Yorker will be familiar with her wry take on contemporary life, and her simple but engaging line discovered her artist and comic talent as a child, and her mother encouraged it, by giving her a book of James Thurber cartoons.“I just liked drawing,” she recalls. “I didn’t asp

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    &#;Frank Modell told me, &#;For the New Yorker, you have to draw better than you know how to.'&#;

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    Cartoonist Nurit Karlin has passed away.

    Updated May 8 with the New York Times obituary.

     

    Nurit Karlin
    December 26, &#; April 30,

    Michael Maslin is reporting the death of Nurit Karlin.

    Ms. Karlin was the only female cartoonist in the pages of The New Yorker from [Mary Petty&#;s last cartoon in] April of through July of when Roz Chast’s first cartoon was published.

    Author/illustrator of children&#;s books
    New Yorker cartoonist

     

     

    What is certain about her work is that it was firmly in the school of visual art. If you look through her collection, No Comment, you’ll be hard pressed to find a captioned drawing  — there isn’t one.  She used words in her cartoons, but sparingly, as in the drawing below from the issue of September 4,

     

     

    May 3 Update:

    When inom asked Karlin where she got her ideas, she said, “If I knew where they came from, I would be the first in line! I used to doodle. Then something would be there.” Her