Roz Chast is an American cartoonist whose work offers a singular lens on the everyday absurdities of life. Her distinctive cartoons, frequently featured in The New Yorker, humorously delve into the complexities of modern existence, anxieties, and human interactions. Chast captures the small frustrations and grander questions with wit and empathy, resonating deeply with readers. Her signature style, marked by its handwritten text and expressive illustrations, provides a disarmingly insightful commentary on our times.
"New Yorker" cartoonist and author Roz Chast shares her experiences with her parents in the final years of their lives.
What began as a mother's illustrated mash note to Manhattan becomes a meandering map of Chast's hilarious mental approach to her beloved town, with all of its oddball shops, subterranean secrets and an abundance of visual stimulation. Washington Post, 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2017
A hilarious illustrated compendium of pet peeves and personal nightmares from the beloved New Yorker cartoonist and New York Times bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and Going into Town. The pages of the New Yorker are hallowed ground for cartoonists, and for the last thirty years, Roz Chast has helped set the magazine's cartooning standard, while creating work that is unmistakably her own- characterized by her shaggy lines, an ecstatic way with words, and her characters' histrionic masks of urban and suburban anxiety, bedragglement, and elation. What I Hate is an A to Z of epic horrors and daily unpleasantries, including but by no means limited to rabies, abduction, tunnels, and the triple-layered terror of Jell-O 1-2-3. With never-before-published, full-page cartoons for every letter, and supplemental text to make sure the proper fear is instilled in every heart, Chast's alphabetical compendium will resonate with anyone well-versed in the art of avoidance- and make an instructive gift for anyone who might be approaching life with unhealthy unconcern.
Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads' Songs
Blending musical influences from blues, country, reggae and classical music with their own original style, Talking Heads are "the thinking man's rock band" whose last four albums have each sold over one million copies. 60 four-color plates.