Missed It: Roz Chast Receives $250,000 Heinz Award

The much-lauded, longtime New Yorker fixture turned super-successful graphic novelist Roz Chast will receive $250,000 from the Heinz Foundation as part of a prize program designed to target creative thinkers about critical issues. In Chast's the issue is adult health care, via her award-winning graphic novel, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

The article notes her absolute surprise at receiving the award; she thought she was going to be asked to donate a cartoon.

Congratulations to Chast, one of the great ambassadors for the medium of comics, and kudos to Heinz for being smart enough to recognize the quality of that work.
 
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