Coffee First

by Liza Donnelly

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Elaine

Her expression is perfectly enigmatic. I just love this, and their relationship. I like how the moment presented invites me to fill in the surrounding thoughts. Or non-thoughts, if the answer is "scrambled".
liza

Slippers are indeed a commitment.
Michael Bennett Cohn

I like how he's wearing slippers, but she isn't, as if to suggest that she hasn't fully committed to being awake yet.
Saul

Something else to appreciate about the flexibility of eggs: different preparations as metaphorical mood ring. I also like that the kitchen chairs themselves don't seem to be fully awake yet.
Liza

Thanks! Glad you like it. Today, I feel hard boiled.
Char

luv it! i am the over-easy with hot sauce :-)

Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine. Her work has appeared in many other publications and exhibitions world-wide. Her cartoons are regularly featured on Slate's doubleX, and wOw. Donnelly's recent books are Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons (Prometheus), a history of the women cartoonists of the magazine; and Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love...in 200 Cartoons (Twelve Books). She and her husband, New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin, collaborated on a book in 2009: Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker's Cartooning Couple (Random House). Chronicle is publishing her next book of cartoons, due out in 2010. Donnelly is on the faculty at Vassar College, where she teaches Cartoons in American Culture and Women’s Studies. She is also the Cartoon Editor for Revolving Floor. She lives in New York. View all of Liza's Revolving Floor contributions.