Roz Chast

About Roz Chast

Roz graduated from Midwood High school in Brooklyn, and went to Kirkland College. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and received her BFA in painting in the year 1977. She also holds honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College, Pratt Institute, and the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and she’s a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her subjects often deal with family and domestic life. She revealed that she enjoys drawing interior scenes, often involving accentuated wallpaper and lamps, to serve as the backdrop for her comics. Her comics reflect a conspiracy of inanimate objects, which is an expression that she credits to her mom. Roz’s first New Yorker cartoon, called “Little Things”, was sold to the magazine in April of 1978. The cartoon, which