Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006

Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006
by Roz Chast

Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006
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Author: Roz Chast
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-10-31
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Book Review: Too much of a good thing?
Summary: 3 Stars

Roz Chast, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-1996 (Bloomsbury, 2006)

When you look at the title of this book, is the first thing you think "you know, if they'd waited two years, they could have come up with a thirty-year retrospective."? Because if you do, then we're on the same page, and if you don't, then I'm probably somewhat bent. I try to come up with these little tests for myself often, because I suspect I am, in fact, quite bent. But that's neither here nor there. Except maybe it is, as the quality of one's bentness may well affect one's appreciation of Roz Chast's comics.

Chast collects four hundred pages(!) of drawings, doodles, and the occasional all-out strip here. As is to be expected from a four-hundred-page collection spanning twenty-eight years of an artist's work, you're not going to be amused by the whole thing (and, to be honest, a single-author four-hundred-page collection is a bit much for anything-- comics, poetry, photography, anything). Some of Chast's conceits will strike you funnier than others. But this is a case of your mileage varying; Chast's harpoons are flying in so many different directions at so many different whales that this sort of thing is quite inevitable, really. And while this really is a daunting task to take on, it's very interesting to see the themes and recurring characters she's brought to the work over the years. Worth checking out, but give yourself time to browse it slowly. I went through it in about three weeks, and I'd say that was too fast. ***

Summary of Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006

At last, the comprehensive book of cartoons from beloved New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.

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