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Roz Chast\'s cartoons exude warmth and whimsy, but often\\xa0share more in common with the dark humor of cartoonists like Charles Addams or Gahan Wilson than they\\xa0do with "Peanuts." When she\\xa0broke into a regular gig as\\xa0a cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine in the 1970s, she had already cultivated the eccentricities\\xa0that became the hallmark of her work. As proof, an adult Chast drew a\\xa0cartoon\\xa0that\\xa0shows\\xa0a young girl\\xa0with her head stuck in\\xa0the\\xa0"Big Book of Horrible Rare Diseases." It\'s labeled\\xa0"Me, Age 9."

Chast\\xa0has illustrated\\xa0more than 800 cartoons for The New Yorker, as well as\\xa0a number of books. Most recently, she published\\xa0Can\'t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a sharply-observed memoir of her parents at the ends of their lives.\\xa0In this episode of\\xa0Here\'s The Thing, Roz Chast talks to Alec Baldwin about life with her parents, growing up in New York, and her neurotic pet birds.\\xa0

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