Trin's Reviews > Unscientific Americans

An older Roz Chast collection featuring many cartoons that don’t appear in her later “best of” books. I love Chast’s cartoons for their literary humor and for her ability to find fun in all sorts of modern neuroses and peccadilloes. Her sketchy art is great, too—there’s one in here in which Freud is, somewhat randomly, a dinosaur, and it’s the drawing of the little dino with a beard and glasses that really made it for me. I also love her occasional narrative comics—the standout one in here is about going with some friends for a nighttime drive. It’s perfectly real and true.

In summation: Roz Chast = WIN.