New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff captures the appeal of Roz Chast and, well, much of Jewish humor in this description: “A classic cartoonist who represents certainly a Jewish sensibility is Roz Chast — a real inward-looking sensibility, and the world as a worrisome, neurotic, yet humorous place, a sensibility which combines anxiety with humor.” (here’s a video of Steve Martin interviewing Chast at the New Yorker Festival in 2006)