Roz Chast

Underwritten by Barbara and John Lovenheim
November 10, 2011

Beloved cartoonist Roz Chast is a brilliant interpreter of the everyday. Her cartoons depict neuroses, hilarity, angst and domesticity and are loaded with words, objects and patterns. More than 1000 of them have been printed in The New Yorker since 1978. Since then, nine collections have been published of Chast’s work, most recently, Theories of Everything, a twenty-five year retrospective. Roz Chast is known for her cast of recurring characters – generally hapless but relatively cheerful “everyfolk” In her cartoons, she addresses the issues of our time: guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, real estate, and as she would say, “much, much more!” The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, has called her “the magazine’s only certifiable genius.” She recently collaborated with Steve Martin on the children’s book The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!