Roz Chast's Dream Comics
Examples from Roz Chast's dream comics, mostly from her admirable collection I Must Be Dreaming, 2023.
Chast started drawing her dreams only when her kids grew up and she had more free time. She mostly keeps it light, with short punchy dreams full of her signature self-deprecating humor. But they're not cheap laughs. There are deep nightmares here--I didn't have the heart to post the very personal dream on page 50--and recurring, lucid & nested dreams (one dream within another). It's an achievement to publish dream-comics at all--and in color no less!
RELATED TOPICS: Larry Vigon's one-page dream paintings with facing illustration - Catherine Metcalf Nelson's similar format, Night Fishing - Jesse Reklaw's Dreamtoons, 4-panel dream-cartoons illustrating the dreams of others - the multipanel but usually one-page grayscale dream-comics of Jim Shaw - Rich Veitch's intense dream-comics, usually one or two pages - Julie Doucet's multipage dream-comics - Wayan's Gif Series, limited-color multipage digital dream-comics & Dreamtales fullcolor multipage dream-comics - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ART ENVY: by Roz Chast, before 2023/9/18, an insecurity-baring dream I dream I'm reading an amazing comic about a bright red geometric dog named Question, floating through surreal landscapes. I'm envious--until I wake in relief that it's just a dream! |
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DISASTER DREAM: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream on the struggle of dreamwork? Trump wackos bomb the World Trade Center. I flee New York. Morticia Addams puts us up. Inside the dream, I fall asleep. When I wake I ask "was the attack a dream?" Morticia says it was smaller. I try to write it all down on my bedsheet, but the ink spreads. I wake again, sure I need to wash the sheet... |
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HOT: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream from a subliminal stimulus I'm in a restaurant at a round table. Waiters wrap me in hot towels. I laugh "If I were chilled, I'd love this--but I'm NOT!" I wake to find I am too hot--too many blankets... |
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KISSINGER+DENTISTRY=WHY: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream within a dream I dream I go to my NY dentist, but the novocaine sends me into a dream of having dentistry in Tel Aviv! I 'wake' and my NY dentist explains he can't do me today: sore hands from doing Henry Kissinger... |
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NUBBINS: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a lucid dream My kid and I have mere nubbins where our fingers should be, but I realize it's a dream--I can grow fingers or absorb them |
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REBELLION: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a dream on dreamwork? I was trapped in a Handmaid's Tale dystopia; I was a mannequin, naked & helpless. I couldn't even walk. But I hid one rebellious act: I kept a diary... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, CARTOON DYSTOPIA |
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RECUR: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, her recurrent dream types cartooned Is our brain trying to tell us something that, evidently, we haven't heard the last 70 times? Or is the dream-manufacturing area feeling a little lazy? I have no idea, but here are some of my "classics"... |
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REVELATION: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a smelly space dream Turns out you can float in deep space without a helmet. But there's this weird disturbing smell, like an electrical fire... |
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SORRY, MY MISTAKE: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a apologetic apocalyptic dream The lights go out, the world's ending. Roz tries to make party snacks and keep folks calm. At last she notices lights out the window. Other buildings seem fine. Is it really the Apocalypse? Or... |
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TO SAVE HUMANITY: by Roz Chast, 2023 or before, a spit-swappin' dream Worldwide drought. I have a mutation making me produce lots of saliva, so to keep people alive, I drool into their open mouths. Gross, but it's take my drool or die... CAUTION: UGH |
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