Roz Chast
My Favorite Cartoonist in the Whole Wide WORLD is a woman named Roz Chast. I discovered her in the mid-1980's, and during those tender years bought some of her first & now unpublished works: Parallel Universes, Unscientific Americans, & Mondo Boxo. Her cartoons are quirky, & capture the bizarre in the mundane world of household interiors and daily life. This brilliant woman is the funniest person on the planet, in my opinion.
For over 25 years Roz Chatz has rendered numerous cartoons (800 or so) for New Yorker, and has published numerous books. She's also illustrated album covers and children's books, etc... The New Yorker is where Roz Chast got her start in 1978. Her first published cartoon was called: "Little Things," a black & white line drawing of small, oddly shaped tiny objects named 'chent,' 'spak,' & 'tiv.' Like many inanimate objects in Roz's cartoons, the 'little things' seemed to have a life & voice of their own.
Roz Chast's latest book ----Theories of Everything----is a compilation, and a book that I must own at some point soon. I'm waiting for the paperback.
Perhaps you've heard of or seen Roz Chast? Below are several of her brilliant cartoons, (click on to view more closely) and a link to an interview she had with Steve Martin. Roz is just as quirky in person as her cartoons. She was way funnier than Steve Martin, hands down! (And he's funny!)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2006/10/09/comicturn
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