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Roz Chast turns 65 today.  I hope she doesn't retire, since she's one of the best cartoonists around.

She's best known, I would say, for her quirky work in The New Yorker.  She's published a number of books, and not just compilations.  A few years ago, for instance, she put out Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant: A Memoir, a bestseller about her aging parents. And her latest, not yet out, will be entitled You Can Only Yell At Me For One Thing At A Time: Rules For Couples.

It's hard to describe her style.  She draws in a quaint, almost primitive manner, and tends to concentrate on the small oddities of life.  I guess it would be best to give some examples:

PS  Gahan Wilson, another great, just died. Here's a sample: