This is a huge tome of very funny cartoons. My painful complaint is that there are no page numbers. Seemingly trivial but when my wife or I want to mark a cartoon for the other to see, we have no way to know where it is. (we bought some page markers to solve this). I am sure this will be dog-eared in time but right now it has it's hefty cover, thick glossy pages, and large format - a wonderful book that won't be exhausted soon. ( )

Roz Chast's cartooning work in recent years has been so content to mine the vein of child/parent relationships that it's easy to forget the pleasures of her early work, which is much more interested in the intersection between the odd and the quotidian. This is a great collection, although the first third (for my money) is vastly better than the final third. ( )

Chast is one of my favorite cartoonists; her work is just the perfect blend of neurotic anxiety, literary humor, and utter wackiness. This is a really great collection, too: 400 pages spanning her entire career, including many of my personal favorites. (Pollyanna in Hell! Yay!) Highly, highly recommended.

3.07 ( )