Bob Mankoff - The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive

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I tell you, the book has everythingsex, history, consciousness, and cats!

WILLIAM HAMILTON, APRIL 11, 1977

I F MY APARTMENT were ablaze and my family safely on the street, the only reason I might charge back through the door would be to rescue a fortieth-birthday present that my colleagues at The New Yorker gave me shortly before I went home one late October night to contemplate the onset of middle age and my own senescence.

The gift hangs (framed and a little cockeyed) in our hallway; its an original cartoon strip called Charles Addams, written and drawn by the modern master Roz Chast. Eleven panels long, the strip is one of the best descriptions Ive encountered of how artistic influence happens. Roz tells of how her parents, a pair of eccentric Brooklyn schoolteachers, would take her along to Cornell University, in upstate New York, for the summer and, while they indulged in a certain degree of intellectualismlectures, courses, and the likeRoz stashed herself away in a corner of Cornells lending library. No reason to feel sorry for her. Roz is not what you would call an outdoorsy type. I am quite sure that her favorite form of flora is the fire hydrant. She was quite content not to be forced into getting any fresh air. City kids of her stripe prefer stale air, air-conditioned airanything but fresh air. The library was a paper paradise. Roz immersed herself in the collections many cartoon books, the works of such