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...she’s still a character that endures and endears—her dress is the same bright red, and her licorice locks haven’t lost their bounce.Lulu Moppet, better known as the lively “Little Lulu” of the eponymous cartoon, has made her way across newspapers, silver screens, and lunch-box covers since she was first created in 1935. Now, the comic starlet has landed in Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library among a historical legion of America’s women. The “Marge Papers...
...small, excitable woman with large glasses, Chast is arguably the greatest living practitioner of a minor art, that of the magazine cartoon, and her work is now collected in a very large book titled Theories of Everything (Bloomsbury; 394 pages). Generally speaking, a cartoonist is somebody who draws little pictures that make people laugh. Chast's drawings do that, but they also do much more...
Chast, 51, wasn't supposed to be a cartoonist. When she was at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1970s, she wanted to be a painter. "Cartooning was not anything that was looked on very positively," she says. "You were trying to communicate with people, which was very tacky. Definitely a no-no." Fortunately, she wasn't very good at painting, so she turned her efforts elsewhere. Some artists take years to evolve their individual sensibility, but Chast was Chast from the very first cartoon she sold, which was titled "Little Things." It's the first cartoon...
...calculatedly amateur--wiggly--style gives her drawings an unpretentious air that allows viewers to be surprised by their greatness. But however ardently they flirt with profundity, Chast's cartoons are always rooted in the regular humiliations of daily life. Earlier this year, a cartoon came to her full blown, right on the sofa where she's sitting for this interview. Her daughter was doing her homework and listening to a CD. "Sometimes you just kind of want to see if they're paying any attention to you, you know?" Chast says. "So I started to do a little dance...
...long as we’re tossing out trite clichés, remember this one: There’s nothing new under the sun. Neither this cartoon theme, nor this problem is original to your cartoonist...