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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from design observer.com.

For 11 years now, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative types

about what they do, how they got to be, who they are, and what they're thinking about.

On this podcast, E. Mement talks with Ross Chast about how she earned a coveted spot as a cartoonist

for the New Yorker magazine and how her art is informed by the brutal reality of life.

You know, I don't bound out of Ed thinking, this is just another great day in my endless

great life.

Here's Debbie Millman.

Of all the cartoonists whose work appears in the New Yorker magazine, who's your favorite?

Well, the competition there is very stiff, but for me, the one who really gets to me is Razzchast.

Not just her jokes, but her characters, her famously frumpy Jewishy existentially awkward

neurotics. Her work appears mainly in the New Yorker but also in other magazines

and in books.

One of her latest is a memoir in cartoon form,

a graphic novel titled,

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant

and among many, many other things. Can't we talk about something more pleasant?

And among many, many other things,

it is about her aging parents.

Ros Chast, welcome to design matters.

Hello.

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