My Funny Valentine

Feb 13, 2009 1:00 AM EST

Husband and wife cartoonists Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin animate love, sex, marriage, and divorce in this excerpt from their new book, Cartoon Marriage.

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cartoon-marriage-5 — Michael Maslin © The New Yorker Collection

cartoon-marriage-6 — Liza Donnelly © The New Yorker Collection

cartoon-marriage-7 — Michael Maslin © The New Yorker Collection

cartoon-marriage-8 — Michael Maslin © The New Yorker Collection

cartoon-marriage-9 — Liza Donnelly © The New Yorker Collection

From the book Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker's Cartooning Couple by Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin (c) 2009. With permission from Random House, an imprint of Random House Publishing.

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Liza Donnelly has contributed cartoons to The New Yorker for 20 years. Her new book, A CARTOON MARRIAGE: Adventures in Love and Matrimony, which she created with her husband Michael Maslin, also a longtime New Yorker cartoonist, will be published next month by Random House on Valentine’s Day.

Michael Maslin began contributing to the New Yorker right out of college in 1977. He has had four collections of his work published, and he co-edited Call Me When You Reach Nirvana and Husbands and Wives, both collections of his and Liza Donnelly’s cartoons.

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