New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast can find something funny in almost all-most notably the Queen of evil a midlife crisis.
In Chast's "down the drain but realistic Queen," the Queen asked, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, which, if he lost 10 pounds and has effected and his neck was done, and have the right hair, could, in the age group, being the fairest of all?"
Will discuss his work Saturday Chast in Wheeler Auditorium in Berkeley in the presentation Cal performances. It is a events not to miss: The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, is called Chast "magazine only certifiable genius."
Sometimes a Chast begins with doodle, but usually the words come first. His unique images showing people who embarrass their kids and worried about the future. Who do not sympathize with "The Little Engine that woulda Coulda Shoulda Woulda thought it"?
Some ideas come directly from their own suburban backyard. His book, "Theories of Everything: selected, collected and reviewed the health cartoon Roz Chast, 1978-2006" including "Dog Day Afternoon," a two-page spread is inspired by Emmy Lou-Sue bull terrier owned by his family for six days in length.
"It's really terrible time," he said. "In retrospect, that was funny."
Chast grew up in an apartment in Brooklyn and likes drawing interior. Her Nightmare, she said, it would be interesting scene in the forest.
"You have some sort of bank image in your mind," he said. "For me, it's furniture and knick-knacks. I like drawing and light television back. "
He studied graphic design and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Two years after college, he was the first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker. Since then, the magazine has published more than 500 pictures of her. Today, he proposed an eight-week; the rejection put forward in his studio, perhaps to reworked later.
He recently published the book "What I hate: from a to Z" focuses on "the things that annoyed me around the edges." He doesn't like quicksand or premature burial. The same applies to the balloon, which can pop in at any time.
Chast, 56, who lives in Connecticut with his family and Bayan, Eli and Marco. He is currently working on a graphic memoir about the last years of his life. A woman of many talents, he also mastered the art of pysanky earnest (Easter eggs Ukraine) and recently learned to hook rugs.
On Saturday, he will discuss the evolution of the style of a picture, sign a copy of the book and answer questions from the audience.
"I hope they will find it funny," he said.
IF YOU GO
Presented by Cal performances
Where: Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus, from Bancroft way Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley
When: 8 pm Saturday
Tickets: $ 32
Contact:(510) 642-9988, www.calperformances.org