Roz Chast

"A great cartoonist creates a whole world" (Bob Mankoff): Celebrating "New Yorker" greats Wm Hamilton and Roz Chast

Update: Adding the caption to that final Wm Hamilton cartoon (oops, didn't realize it wasn't included with the graphic!)by KenSome readers will have noticed that after goodness-only-knows-how-many years of daily (and even twice-daily) posts here, I pretty much disappeared from this space -- and even, sometime after that, from my own Sunday Classics with Ken from DWT blog.

Nothing to read here -- go on to whatever else you had in mind

I know you won't have any interest in what follows, which is just for me. I feel bad, though, so I thought you might enjoy this Roz Chast cartoon from the same issue of The New Yorker referenced below. (Click to enlarge.) Oh, and also the Dan Roe one below.by KenI know there are important things happening in the world which demand comment from me, but they'll just have to wait another day (or possibly more).

Here at last is the TRUE story of Creation (courtesy of Roz Chast)

HERE'S ONE VERSION OF THE CREATION --from the Fourth Day: The lighting of the firmament

THE ANGEL URIEL: In full splendor rises nowthe sun, streaming:a wondrous bridegroom,a giant, proud and happyto run his path.With gentle motion and soft shimmerthe moon steals through the silent night.

Waldemar Kmentt (t), Uriel; Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Eugen Jochum, cond. Philips, recorded July 1966

Amidst the abiding craziness, we channel some cheerily crazed communications beeped by the Zeitgeist

Tom Toles, Washington Post [click to enlarge]by KenThe political craziness level has, at least for the time being, flipped me out, and I refuse to let it crowd out some swell times I've been having on to such nifty places as The Players, the theatrical club founded by the great actor Edwin Booth on Gramercy Park South (a Municipal Art Society Tour with Matt Postal), Coney Island (a Municipal Art Soci

in a "graphic memoir," Roz Chast looks back: "Can't We Talk About Something More PLEASANT?"

Roz says she was never able to get her parentsto talk about their wishes for, you know, the end.Her parents, who were born 11 days apart in 1912 and had known each other practically all their lives, "had tough lives," says Roz, "way, way tougher than mine."by KenIt's not exactly a secret that I am in awe of Roz Chast.