Caveat Emptor
Roz Chast spoofs American advertising in her colorful, yet delicately drawn design. The array of offers touts candy bars that cause weight loss, “Vitamins That Make You Smarter,” and culminates with an order form to send $25 million to Madoff Industries—a timely, painful reminder of the millions lost by clients of Ponzi-scheme-perpetrator Bernard Madoff. Chast combines an engaging style with sly, often sharp and offbeat humor in her work that has won her wide popularity and critical acclaim. She had her first cartoon published in 1978 in the New Yorker, which has since published more than 1,000 of her drawings.
Roz Chast spoofs American advertising in her colorful, yet delicately drawn design. The array of offers touts candy bars that cause weight loss, “Vitamins That Make You Smarter,” and culminates with an order form to send $25 million to Madoff Industries—a timely, painful reminder of the millions lost by clients of Ponzi-scheme-perpetrator Bernard Madoff. Chast combines an engaging style with sly, often sharp and offbeat humor in her work that has won her wide popularity and critical acclaim. She had her first cartoon published in 1978 in the <em>New Yorker</em>, which has since published more than 1,000 of her drawings.