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Roz Chast: “I’m aware that a lot of people probably hate my stuff. But I hate a lot of people’s work, too” The powers that be hated Roz Chast's quirky style at first.
Rosalind "Roz" Chast, a longtime staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, has drawn cartoons and editorial illustrations for nearly 50 magazines and journals from Mother Jones to Town & Country.
Recently, celebrated cartoonist Roz Chast had a dream about the Gowanus Canal, a notoriously polluted Brooklyn waterway that, as one wag has said, “is the only body of water that is 90% guns.” ...
Roz Chast on George Booth’s Cartoons. Every object is lovingly drawn, in a way that only Booth could draw them. Every detail enhances the scene. By Roz Chast. February 10, 2025.
Even as a child, Roz Chast was not a happy-go-lucky kid. She saw the world as a scary and unsettling place. She still does. But she’s turned her fears and neuroses into almost four decades of art, ...
Roz Chast, across decades worth of her cartoons for The New Yorker as well as her own books, most notably the classic “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” has proved herself to be ...
When you find yourself nodding along with The New Yorker’s wry cartoons about life in the city, chances are good it’s another gem by Roz Chast. The Brooklyn native, 61, sent her first cartoon ...
The story behind Roz Chast's cartoons is the story of Roz Chast's life. "Sometimes it does seem like every action you take, there's about like eleven things that can go wrong.
Humanity’s oldest dream turns out to be Roz Chast’s worst nightmare. “Imagine some horrible dystopian future, some 50 years from now, where people just stop dying,” she says, sitting in ...
(New York Jewish Week) — Cartoonist and writer Roz Chast is best known for her work at The New Yorker, where she’s been a contributor since 1978.
Roz Chast, 68 Occupation: Cartoonist, illustrator, author Size matters: “My husband told me that the reason I like our house is because, in some ways, it’s like an apartment.