'There must be some long German compound word for the feelings that most people have about their parents, this mix, this stew of gratitude and resentment,' says Roz Chast, 'or maybe I'm just speaking for myself.'
In her new graphic memoir 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?,' which will be published next week, Chast chronicles the decline of her aging parents. ( Here is an excerpt that ran in the magazine.) 'We didn't make much of Mother's Day,' Chast continues. 'My father thought of it as a Hallmark card kind of holiday. They were not very big on most holidays. That was not something that was big in old Russia.'
'But parents are always an interesting topic to me. It's a bit like Russian dolls: you have your own kids, and you realize you're somebody's kid. You revisit your own relationship with your parents. You bring all of that with you and find that some of it is useful and some not. And some of it is in your power to discard and some of it, it seems, isn't.'
Here is a selection of Roz Chast's past New Yorker cartoons about mothers:
unpublished From March 6, 1989. From January 20, 1992. From May 9, 1994. From February 26 & March 4, 1996. From September 21, 1998. From September 3, 2001. From February 18 & 25, 2002. From April 15, 2002. From January 10, 2005. From September 11, 2006. From January 21, 2008. From May 7, 2012.
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