Roz Chast and Jacob Adam Katzenstein (JAK) at Politics and Prose bookstore in photos

They're starting with Roz warming up the crowd with her cartoons. Pre-signed books are for sale. It's also streaming online.

Roz is doing linocuts now.

The first cartoon he sold to the New Yorker.

Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein on NPR about their new book

 

'New Yorker' cartoonists admit to having 'The Two Saddest Kitchens'

Maureen Corrigan

Fresh Air October 14, 2026

  https://www.npr.org/2026/10/14/nx-s1-5996628/two-saddest-kitchens-review-roz-chast-jason-adam-katzenstein

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/specials/2026/10/20261014_specials_new_yorker_cartoonists_admit_to_having_the_two_saddest_kitchens.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5996628

Dana Jeri Maier exhibit at the Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads

UPDATE: Audio and photos online at https://archive.org/details/dana-jeri-maier-exhibit-at-the-goodwin-house-baileys-crossroads

Dana has an exhibit there, Mostly Cartoons: Cats, Turtles. and Other Characters and is giving a talk about her career to residents.

She started talking about being an illustrator who then started using word balloons and drifted into cartoons about the art world. She debuted her self-published book Worried Well at SPX and then followed it with Skipping to the Fun Part.

Emily Flake got her to pitch to the New Yorker. shown with Lianna Finck.

She was by accepted by the New Yorker online. 

This was her breakthrough that led to an agent and her book Skip to the Fun Parts. 

Now she's drawing turtles, cats, and buildings. 

Here are originals in the gallery.

 

 

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