Roz Chast
Roz Chast
Rosalind "Roz" Chastis an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth26 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.
I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.
Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.
Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.
I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.
My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.
I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.
My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.
I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.
The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.
I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.
Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.
I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start.