Unscientific Americans

Rating:
Summary: kooky cartoons done just right
Review: New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has some of her finest moments in this volume. Her bizarre wit complements her plain figures well. Sort of like a highbrow Gary Larson, only stranger and more suburban.

Rating:
Summary: kooky cartoons done just right
Review: New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has some of her finest moments in this volume. Her bizarre wit complements her plain figures well. Sort of like a highbrow Gary Larson, only stranger and more suburban.

Rating:
Summary: Understated but frightfully clever humor
Review: The cartoons in this book aren't the sort that tickle your funny bone with a tire iron. Instead, they start with an idea that you think has been hackneyed to death, give that idea a slight twist, and take that twist to its logical conclusion. The results are such cartoons as "Lunatic Fringes" and "Unpopular Mechanics."

Rating:
Summary: Unscientific Americans by Roz Chast
Review: There is a very good reason Roz Chast is always mentioned as a cartoonist featured in The New Yorker magazine: She is brilliant. From the twists she puts on familiar phrases to the eye for detail as shown in the wallpaper she draws, Roz Chast books are a delight on every level! "Unscientific Americans" continues her streak of fall-down-laughing cartoons including my personal favorites: Supermarket Hell, Not So Vital Statistics, and Unpopular Mechanics. The world needs more of Roz Chast!

Rating:
Summary: Unscientific Americans by Roz Chast
Review: There is a very good reason Roz Chast is always mentioned as a cartoonist featured in The New Yorker magazine: She is brilliant. From the twists she puts on familiar phrases to the eye for detail as shown in the wallpaper she draws, Roz Chast books are a delight on every level! "Unscientific Americans" continues her streak of fall-down-laughing cartoons including my personal favorites: Supermarket Hell, Not So Vital Statistics, and Unpopular Mechanics. The world needs more of Roz Chast!