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Roz Chast

Roz Chast

American Cartoonist

Born: Nov 26, 1954

Me Parents People Think Time You

Related authors: Bil Keane Bill Watterson Caroll Spinney Charles M. Schulz Gary Larson Matt Groening Scott Adams Walt Disney

I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes. Roz Chast

Death Great Jokes Guess Analyzing Alive Relief Cartoons Obituaries Only Terror Lot Done Maybe Being Grim Reaper Illness Things

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life. Roz Chast

Life Time My Life Favorite Childhood

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. Roz Chast

Young Typical Way UN Cartoons More Weird New Like Also Felt Female Were Yorker Just Being Different New Yorker Just One

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game. Roz Chast

Game Sometimes Fall Insomnia Alphabet Call Asleep Suffer Play

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. Roz Chast

Time Long Long Time Some Fingerprints Cabinet Takes Like Accumulate

Did you know that you can live on Ensure for a year? A person can live for a really long time just lying in bed and drinking Ensure - way longer than you think. Roz Chast

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade. Roz Chast

Together Mother Old Made Parents Saved Seventh Point Oven Partly Mitt Grade Disgusting Where Stained Used Skirt Lives

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up. Roz Chast

Something Like Always Up Blow Going Afraid Basement

I think, especially with my parents, I wanted to remember who they were. I wanted to remember all of it. I didn't want to purge myself of it. I wanted to remember it. Roz Chast

Myself Remember Parents Think Purge Were Want Wanted Who

I don't think any of my kids' books talk down to kids. Roz Chast

Down Think Books Kids Talk Any

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts. Roz Chast

Sunday, there's not a lot of structure. I might spend an hour thinking about why I don't exercise, and feeling very guilty about not exercising. I tried running, over 10 years ago. It didn't really take. Roz Chast

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk. Roz Chast

People Holding Sidewalk Brooklyn Catch Feel Up Wheel

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along. Roz Chast

Me You Change Wonderful Nice Hook Along Named Learn Always How Go Artist Taught Wanted Leslie Nice Thing Thing

I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise. Roz Chast

Noise People Crowds Like Holidays

You might have a worry that's so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment. Roz Chast

You Stupid Worry Out Bad Investment Like Itself Just Might

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