Today’s Times has a short article on cartoonist Roz Chast, whose work Thom and I look forward to seeing each week in The New Yorker (“Another Cartoon Canvas of Neurotic New York“). Her newest collection of cartoons was published last month.
For 25 years, […] Ms. Chast has made her bread and butter by casting a fine eye on the extremely elaborate neuroses of New Yorkers.
Some of the best of those cartoons, complete with their often HIGH STRUNG! captions and HYSTERICAL PUNCTUATION!, have recently been published in “The Party, After You Left” (Bloomsbury), her eighth collection and the first, she says, that she has not instantly regretted.
“There’s usually a point within the first minute when I decide I hate it,” Ms. Chast said of her books. “I look at it and say: ‘Oh, the order’s wrong. That isn’t funny. I should give this all up.’ But this time I haven’t decided I completely hate it. Yet.”