From The BK Reader:
"The BoBi Award, presented each year to an author from Brooklyn whose work best exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn, will go to New Yorker cartoonist and author Roz Chast.
Roz Chast is a celebrated cartoonist and illustrator with work focusing on the mundane moments of life, from midday anxiety to parenting to the agony of waiting for the subway. She is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, with which she has published over 800 cartoons.
Chast is the author and illustrator of several books including What I Hate From A to Z, Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York, and Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, the winner of the inaugural Kirkus Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction. Chast has received numerous honors and accolades, including the National Cartoon Society’s Reuben Award, the Heinz Award for her lifelong work and induction into the Society of Illustrator’s Hall of Fame."
Roz Chast is the first cartoonist to be honored with the BoBi Award and the second illustrator (Mo Willems, the 2019 award recipient, is listed as “picture book author”).
