Roz Chast is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on November 26, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Rosalind “Roz” Chast, born November 26, 1954, is an American cartoonist. She is also a staff cartoonist at The New Yorker. She has published over 800 cartoons in The New Yorker since 1978. She also published cartoons in Scientific American, Harvard Business Review.
More than a dozen books have been written or illustrated by her, including Unscientific Americas, Parallel Universes and Proof of Life on Earth. Theories of Everything: Collected and Health-Inspected cartoons 1978-2006, was published in 2006. It collected most of her cartoons from The New Yorker, as well as other periodicals. Her books have a distinctive feature: the “author photo”, which is always a cartoon she draws from, presumably herself, is a characteristic. Chast also hand-lettered the title page with Library of Congress cataloging information.
In recognition of her work, Comics Alliance listed Chast as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. In May 2017, she received the Alumni Award for Artistic Achievement at the Rhode Island School of Design commencement ceremony.
Although her cartoons for The New Yorker started as black-and-white panels with a few lines of text, she began to use more color. Her work can often be found over multiple pages. On August 4, 1986, her first cover for The New Yorker featured a white-clad lecturer pointing at a family tree of icecream.
