Barbara Shermund, Narrated by Liza Donnelly
Liza Donnelly is a writer and award-winning New Yorker cartoonist covering culture and politics for forty years. She pioneered live drawing, a form of digital visual journalism and directed the 2025 documentary, Women Laughing. Donnelly profiles cartoonist Barbara Shermund, whose irreverent New Yorker drawings captured the spirit of first-wave feminism and the liberated women of the 1920s and '30s.
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Unless otherwise noted, all images used in this video are in the public domain.
Photograph of Barbara Shermund. © 1940. Courtesy of Amanda Janes Gormley.