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 aliveanalyzecartoon share on social
Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny. Roz Chast backextremelyfunny Change image and share on social
My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them. Roz Chast cartoondrawgag Change image and share on social
When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over. Roz Chast alivediefather Change image and share on social
I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise. Roz Chast crowdholidaynoise Change image and share on social
I don't like anything that looks gelatinous - really weirds me out. But when I was a kid, I used to get very, very upset if anything had a kind of chalky texture; like, certain kinds of cottage cheese I know have a weird chalkiness. Roz Chast chalkinesschalkycheese share on social
I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up. Roz Chast archeypesbitecartoon share on social
My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great. Roz Chast finefriendgreat Change image and share on social
I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are. Roz Chast diekindmove Change image and share on social
Even if you don't have any dishes, you need a celery dish. Roz Chast celerydish Change image and share on social
