Entertainment | 02/27/2009 8:00 am
Liza Donnelly's Cartoon of the Week: Happy With Your Body?
Liza Donnelly, noted cartoonist for The New Yorker, is also the editor, with her husband, Michael Maslin, of the book Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker’s Cartooning Couple.
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Click here for more cartoons from Liza’s earlier book, Sex and Sensibility.
Click here for more of Liza Donnelly’s cartoons of the week.
- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- What's your viewpoint on a one-term presidency for Obama, no matter the reason?
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Liz Smith: In a Concert Hall Far, Far Away
- Queen Martha, by Cynthia McFadden
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Liz Smith: In a Concert Hall Far, Far Away
- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Joan Ganz Cooney Still Shops the Way She Always Has
- Joan Ganz Cooney Looks at Unemployment, Not War
- Let Down and Felt Up? by E.D. Hill
- The World in Vogue (Photos)
- What's your viewpoint on a one-term presidency for Obama, no matter the reason?
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- Mr. wOw: Falling in Love Again With 'Marlene'
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Let Down and Felt Up? by E.D. Hill
- The Love Goddess: In Sickness and in Health ... But Hold the Sickness
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Take good care of your body, and it will perform for you. My older body is more "shapely" than my young angular body. I didn’t realize how much being raised in California affected my healthy diet, until I moved back east and have been faced with Philly cheesesteaks. Yikes.
Hi Liza … Attitude hits the nail on the head. We - the women over 40 - have been hit so hard by the media that it how good we look that is what it is all about. . . when you and I know that what really can shine for all to see is the person we are inside. If we feel good about ourselves - our authentic selves and not the "shell" we are so brainwashed about - others are attracted to us. Those who judge us by our shoes, our handbag, our well-kept but a bit overweight bodies, do we really want to know them anyhow??? Making fast judgments, shallowness, mark these people. We just must believe in ourselves, feel wonderful about the persons we are, and we will attract the Lizas in our lives - and all the others who have their heads screwed on right! It is always a delight to know you!!!! Joan
BODY LAMENT
Yesterday the mirror reflected
a body that has been perfected
by vigorous exercise and careful intake.
Today, however, I’m in a funk, for goodness sakes!
cuz that same old mirror shows bulges and sags!
How, I wonder, could this happen? Going from riches back to rags.
Great cartoon! You struck a never with me, Liza. My older body grumbles a lot, but I still I can still talk it into taking me wherever I want to go.