“I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons...” — Roz Chast Quote

I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they're happening.

Sunday, there's not a lot of structure. I might spend an hour thinking about why I don't exercise, and feeling very guilty about not exercising. I tried running, over 10 years ago. It didn't really take.

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

Even if you don't have any dishes, you need a celery dish.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.

It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

It's great that we can, however subtly, offer important lessons through cartoons that it's important to protect the environment.

I started working in a tire shop when I was 12, so my childhood was cut off early because I had to work, so I didn't watch many cartoons, movies and series.