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Rosalind "Roz" Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Since 1978, she has published more than 800 cartoons in The New Yorker. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.

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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

Cleaning, Completely, Dust, Kids, Memories, Parents

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

Art, Fact, Mean, Real, Reproduced

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

Advice, Friend, Good, Kids, Take, Thinking

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

Cartoon, Form, Love, Plasticity

I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.

Love, Minutiae, Notice, Think, Thinking

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.

Friends, Laughing, Love, Thinking, Used

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.

Fighting, People, Shopping, Thousand

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Care, Health, Mental, Mental Health, Selfishness, Taking

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

Bored, Death, Kid, Kids, Superhero, Understand

You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.

Bed, Die, Happen, Praying, Want, Working

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

Cartoon, Cartoons, Littles, Plates, Reason

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

Childhood, Favorite, Life, My Favorite, Time

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

Maybe, Mean, Saying, Think, Thinking

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

America, Caring, Century, Elderly, Sissies

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

Art, Painting, School, Single, Thing, Thought

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

Cabinets, Fingerprints, Long, Takes