About Roz Chast:

“Rosalind “Roz” Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and the The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review. (wikipedia)

Jason Levesque is a “drawler, designer, do’er of stunts” from Norfolk, VA. USA. Check more of his illustrations, visit his blog.

A Journey Round My Skull: Illustrations by E. Benyaminson for Hello, I’m Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russia, 1989).

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Simon Evans was born in 1972, in London, England. He now lives and works in Berlin. In it’s March 16, 2009 issue, the New Yorker wrote about him: “The Berlin-based young Brit shows terrifically charming word works in scrappily drawn and collaged maps, charts, diary pages, CD covers, and what all. The mode is poignat recall” (read more: PDF)

He is currently represented by the James Cohan Gallery.

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“Jeffrey Brown’s own self-parody of his “ultra-sensitive” graphic novel, Clumsy. A heaping of in-your-face male chauvinism, over-the-top machismo, and self-involved gratification. For all those jerks who complained that Jeffrey Brown was a sissy, finally you can see him “Be a man!” — 32 pages” (TopShelfComix)

“Jeffrey Brown (born 1975) is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.” (Wikipedia). Check his blog and visit his official website : jeffreybrowncomics.com

About David McCandless : “I’m David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. I’ve written for The Guardian, Wired and others. I’m into anything strange and interesting.

These days I’m an independent visual & data journalist. My passion is for visualising information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words.

I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!” (read more)

“The Callipygian Venus or Venus Kallipygos, (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος Aphrodite Kallipygos, “Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks”), is a type of nude female statue of the Hellenistic era. In an example of anasyrma, it depicts a partially-draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them.” (read more)