RICHARD GEHR: Were you one of those kids who drew constantly? Donkey and mule are strange. EDITORIAL QUERIES AND INFORMATION:[emailprotected], 7563 Lake City Way NE But everything in my life was educational. If I had to do a newspaper strip where its boom, boom, punch line, I would kill myself. CHAST: DoubleTake magazine sent me. She has vintage Steig, early Helen Hokinson, and, of course, all of Charles Addams. I was shy. Its really invalid!. Walking home one night after dinner at a West Side Chinese restaurant, a couple of friends look back to see Chast at work with her smartphone, taking pictures of something on the darkened sidewalk. What are some of the reasons that people may feel isolated in todays society? Back inside the cozy, handsome house, one finds at last the essential Chast, the Roz rosebud, in the form of two fine and carefully kept collections of books. We got married in 1984. by Roz Chast. But, for the past twenty-five years, he has devoted himself chiefly to raising a family, and preparing the Halloween spectacle. Leaving home at sixteen (as fast as I could), she spent two years at Kirkland College, in upstate New York, and then four years at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence. CHAST: In April of 78 I was still living at home with my parents, which was not good. In comic-book form, it is an unsparing study of the claustrophobic terrors of getting old; any middle-aged person who reads it will find his eyes darting around his own environment, checking for signs of the relentlessly incremental household grime that Chast spies creeping in with age. CHAST: That was for The New Yorker's Journeys issue. In a living room across the park, Chast is playing a turquoise ukulele. To what extent do you think Chastsand her parentsanxieties drive the tone and direction of the book as it unfolds? I could name dozens more. I think I got kind of good at being warily aware of my surroundings. If I asked her, Mom, how come we shop on 18th Avenue? There was a little anteroom and you had to be buzzed in. The first impulse in describing Roz Chast is to say that she looks exactly like a Roz Chast character: short blond hair, glasses, strong nose, high shoulders. They were eighteen or nineteen, but they already knew who they were and how they wanted to dress. So I switched to illustration. Its got short stories and articles and things like that. CHAST: Im finishing up a second childrens book based on my birds. GEHR: You do more different types of cartoons than almost anyone else I can think of, including single-panel gags, four-panel strips, autobiographical comics, and documentary work. I dont like cartoons that take place in nowhereville. GEHR: Who were some of the extraordinary ones? Cant We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, written by Roz Chast, a longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker, is a tour de force (Elle), remarkable (San Francisco Chronicle), revelatory (Kirkus), deeply poignant and laugh-out-loud funny (New York Times), and one of the great autobiographical memoirs of our time" (Buffalo News). Me and Playboy is an even weirder combo than me and The New Yorker. My teacher was Malcolm Grear, a famous graphic designer who designed the Amtrak logo, and the idea was to strip everything down to the minimum. With chapter titles like The Beginning of the End, The Elder Lawyer, and Kleenex Abounding, Chasts humor guides us through events all too familiar to many Americans, from cleaning out the detritus of her parents cluttered apartment to the sudden learning curve and anxiety associated with wills, health-care proxy and power-of-attorney forms, end-of-life directives, assisted-living costs, and weird cravings for tuna fish sandwiches. CHAST: Yeah, there's been some of that. I always loved New York and felt like it was my home. Caged Bird. Everybody should get to define themselves as they feel. Younger, femaler, and a less orthodox draftsperson than her colleagues, Chast drew with a "ratty" cartoon style akin to Lynda Barry, Matt Groening, Gary Panter and other mainstays of the alternative press. Then you carefully melt all the wax off the egg, so only the colors remain. I was terrified of lockjaw. I havent done it in more than a year. Im aware that a lot of people probably hate my stuff. He uses typing paper and I use Bristol, because sometimes I put washes on things, as I have since I started. If I really like a cartoon, Ill just resubmit it and resubmit it until there are like six rejections on the back. She told me it was so much fun I had to get one of my own. She has published several cartoon collections and has written and illustrated several childrens books. They have to have a basic knowledge of survival and safety. It's just horrible! Learn more - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in a new window or tab. I make kusudamas, which are Japanese floral globes. I remember when I sold this cartoon of a mailbox in the middle of a Midwestern landscape. All rights reserved. CHAST: To some extent, yeah. Tod Gitlin. The artist discusses finding humor in everyday ephemera and what she likes to order at her favorite local diner. They got the joke, and it really didnt last long. Author: Chast, Roz. I'm amazed people can do this without feeling like theyve just gone to sleep. This paper will review how she was able to capture the reader's empathy, focusing specifically on her use of detailed drawings to depict herself and her parents as well as various effects on the written text. What if its porn? It's called What I Hate: From A to Z. GEHR: Is there a technical term for balloon phobia? Gut-wrenching and laugh-out-loud funny (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Chasts memoir, Cant We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, is a mix of four-color cartoons, family photos, sketches, found documents, and narrative storytelling that chronicles the conflicting emotions, memories, and practical challenges of her parents last years and passing. Kirkland had a great art department with all-new facilities that were underutilized because it wasnt really an art school. Once the topic of the kind of paper we use came up with Sam Gross. In recognition of her work, Comics Alliance listed Chast as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. Bill was an interoffice messenger and I was in on a Wednesday, and he was so nice and he showed me some funny postcardsclowns waterskiing in a pyramid, it was so bananasand then I had to go and I met him a few days later, and we started dating. The comedian interviews the artist about the state of cartooning, and how she got her start. If not, you have my total sympathy." He told me that ShawnWilliam Shawn, the magazines longtime editorreally liked my work. I sold several cartoons to National Lampoon, where Peter Kleinman was art director. I didn't care. GEHR: Not even in a commercial, illustrational way? The question I have is: Can people make a living doing it? What if its weird and Im going to be all weirded out? Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. Thats how I refer to us around our own kids: When we were running around in New York., Franzens family hails from the Midwest; he was raised in Minnesota with a family farm in Iowa, a background that Chast viewed with wonder and alarm. Deep down, I think I still wanted to be a cartoonist. To have a knowledge and understanding of a certain subject or craft. They were a lot older and might have had it with having a kid around. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. GEHR: What did you end up working on there? The mid-1970s was not a great time to be a cartoonist if you were at RISD. $8.49 $ 8. I learned a lot of stuff. Of all the cartoons I submitted, it might have been the most personal, the kind of thing that makes me laugh, Chast says. A very intimidating woman with red hair named Natasha used to sit there like she was guarding the gates. I was so fatootsed by the whole thing, my shrink said, What about chapters? And I wasshe electrifies her face. Rosalind "Roz" Chast was the first truly subversive New Yorker cartoonist. I love Mary Petty, who's kind of creepy. They were so funny and so irreverent, and, it has been pointed out, one of the first institutions that made fun of American culture. I'm thinking about the two long journalistic pieces about lost luggage and the alien abduction conference in Theories of Everything. But, though her work thematizes her apprehension and anxiety, she is, in not so slowly dawning fact, a woman of considerable authority, and unstinting appetites. Its a cigar box with four rubber bands on it. I dont know what happened to him. Have been encouraged to do more of it? GEHR: What made the submission process so strange? Reading it online is very different. ROZ CHAST: Oh yeah! It was my first time in this famous place, and Im talent! Have you experienced or witnessed a similar transition in your own life? They used to be the gateway drug to reading magazines for an entire generation. LEE. It was from Lee Lorenz, then The New Yorkers art editor. Now shut up. And it was great! In retrospect, what preparations could Chast and her parents have taken to lessen the burdens that they encountered? - Please read Roz Chast's What I Learned on pages 243-246 and answer questions 1,2, and 5. That also happened to be the rent for my first apartment: 250 bucks. I dont think its a common phobia. Roz Chast - Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? The crowd, which skewed older, responded well to the Brooklyn-born illustrator. LET'S TRY IT! I learned a lot of stuff and it was very "educational." They dont impress me, but they scare me. You wont be playing it great, but you can play it. Why is your handwriting the way it is? I think making jokes is always a way of being subversive without being directly confrontational, she says. CHAST: I overlapped one year with David Byrne. That was kind of all right, and I met some people in the department whom Im still friends with. This means that intelligence comes from the entire cognitive thinking ability and not what they know. . GEHR: We were talking about your process and got distracted in the idea stage. Absolutely. I had zero nostalgia for it. - KIRKUS, STARRED REVIEW. She often casts her eyes down, but this is less modesty than attunement to the street life beneath her feet. Later you can find them . Maybe it's because cartoonists can do what they want; they arent told what to do by an editor who wants all of an issue's cartoons to be on a specific topic. She attended Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Painting, but returned to cartooning after graduating. I did. CHAST: I love anything to do with fairytales, like the Three Little Pigs or Rapunzel. No one encouraged me to be a cartoonist, she recalls. Her cartoons and covers have appeared continuously in The New Yorker since 1978. Ive admired Mary Petty forever, she says, as she shares an ancient book by that early, inimitable cartoonist. She holds an equally impressive collection of contemporary graphic novelists and alternative artists, including a near-full run of the works of Derf Backderf, whose study of a young serial killer, My Friend Dahmer, was adapted into a movie. We dont deal with death in this society, said Chast. The theme was "honor America." His stuff was the first grown-up humor I really loved. Roz Chast Net Worth. This week's cover, by Roz Chast, presents a familiar Thanksgiving tableau, though it replaces friends and family with what's even closer to the heart: our . Sometimes I do cartoons from those ideas, and sometimes they lead to other ideas. So I came home and I drew it and felt better. Chast: I think getting very very wound up about a neurotic thing in retrospect seems funny but not at the time. It was, like, they were already messed upa clearance thing? I bet they paid you more than ten dollars for it. A carpenter was repairing a leaky bathroom ceiling down the hall, and Chast was preparing to depart that evening for a pair of West Coast lectures. edit data. Bill Franzen has been creating an annual Halloween display for the past quarter century, and its arrival each year has become a major event in Ridgefield, as well as in the familys life. I dont think it adds to the funniness but it makes your eye happier, you know? They played "Psycho Killer" and I was blown away. I dont like deer jumping out at you. In what ways did her relationship with each of her parents differ? They were sort of clunky, but there was something funny about the way he drew expressions. Doing stories or anything jokey made me feel like I was speaking an entirely different language (Comics Journal). A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Books for a Better Life Award, the memoir tells the story of Chasts parents final years through cartoons, family photos, found documents, and narrative prose. His wife, Jeanne, has thousands of them. She was ninety-seven. But what's your real problem with suburbia? These are all mine. GEHR: Do you get most of your material from so-called real life? Two Scoreboards. And, of course, the color, turquoiseI do believe it adds to the sound, on some level.. Everybody there was good, and some people were extraordinary. by Carl Hiaasen and Roz Chast | Apr 10, 2018. In intimate exchanges, Chast reveals herself as more tough-minded and self-confident than her deliberately dithery social surface suggests. Steinberg is so inventive, so wonderful. Such wonderful experiences. Let Teenagers Try Adulthood. Do you or members of your family share any of their particular anxieties? How do you make those things? But I was a good girl and I studied. GEHR: Have you ever had to fight to keep something in a cartoon? What might Chast have discovered about herself in writing this book? Do you think your place of residence influences you? (I think theyre very anthropomorphic. There are all these different sorts of beasts of burden. I wish I could say I knew more. GEHR: There have always been very few women cartoonists at The New Yorker. Nah. I learned how to develop film and print. There is a color rendition on this text in the color insert of the book. When single-panel emphasis is essential, we get magnificent single panelsamong them an audacious and painful drawing of a blue baby, her older sister, who lived for only a day. But it wasnt about drawing a horse correctly, because thats not what cartoons are about. I thought I might be dreaming. I only recently learned what an ox wasa castrated bull. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. GEHR: I get the impression you werent particularly countercultural growing up. Chast went on to become The New Yorker's most versatile artist as well as one of its finest writers. The standpipes are like hedges, and the hydrants are like city grass.) She has spotted what is evident to her eye, but what anyone else would have walked right by: the upright masculine shape of the hydrant has somehow cast an entirely feminine shape on the sidewalka shape that looks like a prehistoric fertility figure, a Venus of Willendorf. This transition, however, is rarely simple or seamless, as Chast illustrates on p. 146. Its basic chordsits really easy. Outside USA: 206-524-1967, The Magazine of Comics Journalism, Criticism and History. It was worse. And Jules Feiffer. Not great. Horace Mann. Lee's wonderful. The idea of being in headphones and in my own worldthats not in my world. She has authored several books, including Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006 (Bloomsbury, 2006); the childrens books Too Busy Marco (Atheneum, 2010) and, in collaboration with the comedian Steve Martin, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! They run through a set list that includes Two Middle-Aged Ladies and the blues classic Loft of the Rising Rent.. Thats how my parents kept me quiet and occupied. I noticed that the lights were very like my elementary school. The artist discusses her inner Jewish mother and why she doesnt like warm seawater. CHAST: I resubmit them, and sometimes I rework them. SIGNED BY CHAST on the title page. I lock myself up with my little ideas and just stay in here and work. GEHR: Did you graduate from high school early? The two traditions flow, respectively, from Peter Arno and James Thurber, with Arno, in the nineteen-twenties, already picking up details of social life and delivering them in supremely elegant stenography, inventing such virtuosic icons as the drunk whose eyes form a simple X of inebriation, and the nude chorine caught in six neatly curved lines. Comics, Memoir, Nonfiction. I would like to feel earnest about something, but its hard to feel that way. Doing stories or anything jokey made me feel like I was speaking an entirely different language. So first I Xerox them, because of course the Bristol board wont go through the fax machine. She is one of New York's most distinct Jewish cultural voices, most famous for her New Yorker cartoons over the past . New Yorker cartoons can be very timely but also not, yet somehow they reflect their time even if they're not addressing the week's events. CHAST: It's ADD. Too Busy Marco, the first one, came out last year. I liked that, but I had no interest in doing that. I wrote another piece that only appeared online about my friends father. CHAST: No. She also really doesnt like carnivals. CHAST: I jot things down on pieces of paper, and I have a little box of ideas. CHAST: I use watercolor and gouache. I went through one big phase, and then I didnt do it again for a couple of years. The punch line was something like, 1,297,000 West 79th Street. GEHR: How many rough cartoons do you usually draw during those two days? Her next book, she says, will be about dreams, a subject that has always fascinated her: Im interested in how dreams are both ridiculous and serious, at the same time.. I hope it comes across that my feelings for them were complex, but that I do think of them as amazing people. So great, so interesting, and so beautifully drawn. We always had a good relationshipI hope! And Gluyas Williams, love the beautiful weird eyes, just incredible. She graduated with a BFA in painting from RISD in 1977. Sometimes you feel like, What else am I going to do? I got a little bit of illustration work. Softcover ADVANCE READING COPY of the first U.S. edition hardcover published in May 2014. I like being aware of whats around you.. That didnt sound like fun to me. So in her new book, What I Hate: From A to Z,. My kids got a great education here I think and seemed more or less happy. Where Charles Addams, her first hero, created a world of mansard-roofed houses and ghoulish folks to fill them, hers is the world of the receding New York middle class: scuffed-up apartments, grimy walls, round-shouldered men perched on ratty armchairs and frizzy-haired women in old-fashioned skirtsno Chast skirt has ever risen above the kneemarked by a shared stigmata of anxiety above their eyes. CHAST: No, I wasnt for so many reasons. I also had a different sensibility, I was a lot younger, and I probably didn't want to be there. GEHR: Did you keep trying to draw humorous stories? You'd get lockjaw. I was pretty shocked, but he said to come back every week with stuff. I liked the fake ads and, of course, Al Jaffee. Thats what gets me. To be sure, the awkwardness of her hand is willed in a way that Thurbers was not, as she demonstrates with heartbreaking, freely drawn portraits of her mother on her deathbed in Cant We Talk About Something More Pleasant? But the confessional nature of her work lies in the individual range of obsessions and images it draws upon. So, I look away, but carefully. Bill is in his element.. Roz Chast feels a great deal of anxiety aboutamong other thingsballoons, elevators, quicksand, and alien abductions (What I Hate: From A to Z, Bloomsbury, 2011). GEHR: Where did your work ethic come from? . With that book, like everybody else, I just. by Roz Chast | Jan 1, 1988. It was where they had a map of Manhattan, hung sideways. Maybe the way they're surrounded by all that type unifies New Yorker cartoonists in a funny way. In the past two years, an extraordinary amount of Chasts time has been spent as half of this duo, called Ukelear Meltdown. I picked it up and started looking through it and it has cartoons! Having led a life adjacent to hers over the past four decades, Ive been a frequent witness to and occasional participant in the joyful intensity of her enthusiasms, which range from klezmer music to smart birdsparrots and parakeets. Lee would see you in the order in which you arrived. I pull them out when I sit down to do my weekly batch. The final critique of the one size fits all education is Roz's epiphany. And I just wrote an introduction to a book of Steig's unpublished drawings for Abrams. We basically started making up these stories to make each other laugh: Remember when we were at Woodstock? Chast says. There was a little waiting room outside Lees office where youd sit around with the other cartoonists. School, school, school. The memoir begins with Chast going back after a long hiatus to check in on her parents in Brooklynnot the Brooklyn of artists or hipsters, she explained, but the Brooklyn of smelly hallways and neighbors having screaming fights and people who have been left behind by everything and everyone. Her mother, Elizabeth, was built like a peasant, shed say: short, solid, and strong. So I would make up math tests for my fellow students on a little Rexograph copying machine we had at home that used was purple ink. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for What I Hate : From A to Z Hardcover Roz Chast at the best online prices at eBay! Theres nobody on the train, I just spent four years at art school, so who cares? I got yelled at not that long ago, by some French woman at Uniqlo, because I was looking at some sweaters and I messed up the pile. I didnt show them to anybody. Horrible! And real. I even liked Dave Berg, and I know its not cool to like Dave Berg. In Chasts hands, the neighborhood features a Little Vermont section, with its House of Cheddar, and a Central Park Country Fair (Come see brawny Akitas pull many times their weight in Sunday papers!), while its apartment dwellers are not above a little radiator cookery: Potato: 3 weeks, 5 days. This is not entirely a joke; there was a period in the late seventies when, living in a stoveless apartment on West Seventy-third Street, Chast cooked on a hot plate that was not much hotter than a radiator. It features at a glance profiles of the facilities, taxes and transport links for every area and regional price guides show you what to expect for . Places that are trying to impress me always scare me. Their concept of being happy, wrote Chast, quoting her mother, was for modern people or movie stars. How did readers, not to mention other artists, react when you started appearing in the magazine? Think about the greats: George Booth, Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson, Mary Petty, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Ziegler, and Charles Saxon all have different comic and esthetic voices. Her works ranging from whimsical, irreverent, and quirky to poignant and heartbreaking, Roz Chast is widely considered one of the most comically ingenious and satirically edgy visual interpreters of everyday life. Patty is the one who first got the ukulele, Chast explains. . That I like. How would you describe that transition in this story? I was working for the Voice and for the Lampoon, and I thought I should try The New Yorker. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew." Roz Chast tags: belongings , cleaning , death , mourning , parents , perception 28 likes Like "I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed." I think parents need to make sure that their kids can make it through the world. A little later, after grilled cheese, Chast takes the visitor on a tour of the staging area. Her 1978 arrival during William Shawn's editorship gave the magazine a stealthy punk sensibility. From a compositional point of view, the book is amazing in the variety of formats it employs: when photographic evidence is necessary to capture the sheer clutter of her parents long-occupied apartment, we get photographs. Seattle, WA 98115 Some of them are long, but a two-page thing still only counts as one. They must have thought I was a fucking wacko. She caused a big uproar, he added. CHAST: I started out in graphic design but I wasn't good at it. I actually had one of those weird moments this is going to sound like total bullshit, but its true when I was coming back on the train and opposite me was this issue of Christopher Street magazine. I didnt see myself as part of that. What I Learned "be good" mantra throughout. That would have been hard to fully acceptseriously! Petes the same person, Chast says, of her child. This was the height of Donald Judd's minimalism, or Vito Acconci's and Chris Burden's performance art. A permanent goiter. Cartoons, as it happens, are tailor-made for the absurdities of old age, illness and dementia, the odd dramas and grinding repetition expertly illustrated by copious exclamation points, capital letters and antic drawings (New York Times). About the author Roz Chast 60 books389 followers Rosalind "Roz" Chast is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Rosalind "Roz" Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. You know how it is? CHAST: My dad, George, was a French and Spanish teacher at Lafayette High School. CHAST: The most wonderful thing about them is their different voices, which is what the magazine's known for. CHAST: No, I only met him in the New Yorker offices. I wanted to draw. Roz Chast. So I feel better that they should look at it in private when they have time; when Im not sitting there. Everybody has their taste. alludes to a Maya Angelou piece. Shes a Klutzy Konfessionalist with an ever-longer-breathed narrative drive, propelling toward unexpected horizons and subjects. Comics criticism, journalism, reviews, plus exclusives! A little bit out of body. . I dont like it when its kind of random. Caged Bird. CHAST: Yes. One, in a bedroom upstairs, is made up of three hundred volumes by New Yorker cartoonists, going all the way back to the earliest strata. Shes not a fan of Halloween, particularly since her husband, the humor writer Bill Franzen, created an elaborate and creepy spectacle in their front yard for many years that attracted so many visitors the police had to close down the street. This is it, even when I give characters contemporary haircuts. Dont you want to stay indoors where its safe, and read and draw? Oh, and then theres steer! She has, once again, Chast-ized the world around her, finding an image of startling sexual complementariesor is it dubious gender battle?on an Upper West Side street. What do they represent? Being a child was just not working for me. I Love Gahan Wilson, of course. Worst batch ever! Look at my bosoms! GEHR: Did you grow up in an academic environment or just a school environment? I work on books and my other projects the rest of the week. Let Teenagers Try Adulthood. You can find me in the second volume of The Rejection Collection. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Then I switched to painting because I was living with painters and really wanted to be a painter. Bill would say that this has a lot to do with the fact that I grew up in Brooklyn at a time when New York was a little rougher, she says, contemplating her own sidewalk contemplations. (Why would we need to know its name? she wonders. But I didn't feel like I fit in with underground cartoonists after I was sixteen or so. I like cartoons where I know where theyre happening. Dont throw steer into this mix, because then Im going to have to, like, never leave New York.. Its like Im reading The New Yorker Magazine of Cartoons first. But I had to learn to drive when me moved out here. I got a few illustration jobs. The quintessential work of that era would be a video monitor with static on it being watched by another video monitor, which would then also get static. We took her to the vet, who had to muzzle her because she was going so crazy. Roz Chast and Steve Martin at the New Yorker Festival Leaving home at sixteen ("as fast as I could"), she spent two years at Kirkland College, in upstate New York, and then four years at the. GEHR: They also vary a lot in terms of how much writing you do from none at all to rather a lot. But when I first walked into that room, it was all men. I cried and cried. We ate at some mafia Italian restaurant. He was a high school French and Spanish teacher who also spoke Italian and Yiddish and loved words and languages, but he couldnt handle simple everyday tasks. It inspects, in depth, the personalities of her weak, worried, but benevolent father and her hard-edged, peasant-tough mother, with Chast herself caught in a permanent meta-cycle of well-meant gestures, torn between compassion and exasperation, having to be kind when you just want to be gone. I wanted a different kind of relationship with my mother, but it was too late for that. The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is that its a combination of words and pictures, Chast told the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, one of several galleries around the country that has exhibited her work. a fire hydrant. But, yeah, suburbia iskind of weird. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a B.F.A. One was Addamss work (from this magazine), which she first encountered as a child, in the nineteen-sixties. But, unlike some artists, she doesnt see much difference between the classic cartoon and the graphic novel or memoir. 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