Rosalind “Roz” Chast (1954) is an American cartoonist best known for her long, ongoing collaboration with The New Yorker. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in a family of teachers. Drawing was part of her life from early childhood.
Chast studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1977 with a B.F.A. Before joining The New Yorker, she published cartoons in several smaller magazines, including Christopher Street, The Village Voice, and National Lampoon.
In April 1978, she sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker. Since then, the magazine has published hundreds of her cartoons, and her voice has become one of its most recognizable. Her work gravitates toward everyday anxieties, family life, aging, and the strange logic of ordinary situations. Her visual style features loose lines, handwritten text, and slightly uneasy characters, and it is instantly recognizable.
Chast has written and illustrated more than a dozen books. Among them are Unscientific Americans, Parallel Universes, Proof of Life on Earth, Theories of Everything, and the widely acclaimed graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, which focuses on her parents and the final years of their lives.
She has been honored with multiple awards, including induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Beyond cartooning, she also works with textiles and enjoys playing the ukulele.
Chast lives in Connecticut with her family.
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In 2007, the well-known actor and popular author Steve Martin together with Roz Chast, a witty cartoonist who had long and fruitfully collaborated with The New Yorker, decided to combine their efforts and creative abilities and came up with a humorous illustrated tour of the English alphabet. The Alphabet from […]
