Carolita Johnson, born in New York, has been regularly contributing
cartoons to The New Yorker since 2003, when she came back from
accidentally spending fifteen years in France trying her hand at just
about everything from Medieval Anthropology, selling cigars to rich
posers, and constructing hand-made mosaics, to translation, software
testing, and fashion modelling.  She pays for her cartooning habit by
selling as many cartoons as possible, and also by modelling and doing
freelance illustrations.

She has written for Print Magazine, and appeared twice in The
Rejection Show, where she presented not only her rejected New Yorker
cartoons, but also her success story as a short, "ugly" fashion model
in Paris after being known as "Ape-Face Johnson" in her tender,
adolescent, formative years.  Her rejected cartoons have appeared in
Matt Diffee's "Rejection Collection," to her unending satisfaction.
(She continues to produce rejected cartoons on a weekly basis!)   She
is featured in Liza Donnelly's book, "Funny Ladies," with all the
other notable and noted women cartoonists of The New Yorker. She
also writes a blog called "newyorkette" and paints scenes of New York
when she should be doing her taxes.

View samples of Carolita Johnson's work