The main part of the image is given over to a large remote control, whose buttons are labelled “TV explodes”, “cause nationwide blackout”, “lose sound”, “lose pictures”, “launch rocketship”, “house blows up”, “emit snakes”, etc. At the top left of the cartoon, an anxious old lady at the bottom right, a TV, fizzing with menace. To pick an example: “How grandma sees the remote”. Her characters are usually fraught, desperately genteel losers in various states of self-delusion, devoid of any trace of glamour there are more antimacassars in her work than probably now exist in the entire United States.īut she is almost always hilarious: a master of anxiety, whether her own, or other people’s. Her work is often very wordy the lettering is part of the cartoon, never in italics underneath. You will not see dogs or cats passing wry remarks to each other and seldom will the drawing take up a great deal more space than the caption. R oz Chast is my favourite New Yorker cartoonist, possibly because her work does not fit the standard template.
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