Product details
- Publisher : Humorist Books; 2nd ed. edition (November 2, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 93 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0578241056
- ISBN-13 : 978-0578241050
- Item Weight : 4.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.21 x 8.5 inches
The Elements of Stress and the Pursuit of Happy-ish in this Current Sh*tstorm
Things can’t get much worse—but can they get funnier.
THE ELEMENTS OF STRESS and the Pursuit of Happy-ish in this Current Sh*tstorm is a humorous handbook to help readers better deal with the challenges and headaches of our times, from overeating, to love problems, money woes, global warming, night sweats, winter itch, general anxiety, and so much more. Plus, over 70 stress-defusing cartoons from two of the best gag cartoonists in the world will help readers handle all the anxiety in today’s new world disorder––the perfect gift for fans of the original Elements of Style or anyone who has had it up to here.
About the authors:
Bob Eckstein appears regularly in major publications as a humorist, cartoonist, award-winning illustrator, and New York Times bestselling author. He was nominated by the National Cartoon Society as Gag Cartoonist of the Year, twice, and selected in 2018 as the Erma Bombeck Humor Writer of the Month. He teaches Writing and Drawing at NYU.
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Michael Shaw’s cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker since 1999 and have a habit of going viral—appearing on an ABC news special following the World Trade Tower attack and on 60 Minutes as one of New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff’s “top five favorites.” Shaw’s cartoon on The Charlie Hebdo shooting led to his appearance on Ronan Farrow Daily on MSNBC. His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons, The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, The Rejection Collection I and II, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons, The Ultimate Cartoon Book series and in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Harvard Business Review, Weekly Humorist, and Prospect magazine.
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About the Author
Bob Eckstein is an award-winning writer, New Yorker cartoonist, cartoon editor, author of The New York Times bestseller Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores. His cartoons, OpEds, and short stories appear regularly in the New York Times, New York Daily News, MAD magazine, Barron’s, Readers Digest, The Spectator, Prospect, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Atlas Obscura, LitHub, among many others. He was a columnist for the Village Voice, New York Newsday, and TimeOut New York. He has been interviewed in over 100 TV, radio and magazine spots including Good Morning America and People magazine. He was selected Erma Bombeck Humorist of the Month.
Follow him on Twitter at @BobEckstein, Facebook Bob Eckstein and Instagram at bob_eckstein.
Bob Eckstein spent seven years traveling the world researching and attempting to answer the age-old question, who made the first snowman? and is the world’s leading snowman expert. He has spoken publicly on the subject at many venues like The Grolier Club, Milford Theater and the Cooperage Theater.
Born in the Bronx, he now lives in Manhattan. He teaches Writing & Drawing at NYU.
Michael Shaw’s Cartoonium Vitae
Tragedy, plus time, equals comedy. But who’s got time anymore?
Michael was not born in the house that his father built, but the house, in Jefferson County, Missouri, his father added onto three or four times. (Depending on what one considers to be an “addition.”)
Christmas morning, 1968, a copy of Thurber and Company arrives with the expected swag of G.I. Joes and Hot Wheels. Why? Michael wonders to this very day… OK, bring on the bullet points!
• Flourishes to as close as he was going to get to splendid manhood. Graduates from Hillsboro High School determined to escape. Attends Webster University, graduating with a B.F.A. in painting. Finds the demand for Abstract Expressionists in the greater St. Louis area to be mysteriously waning…
• Travels through Europe, living in Greece for a year. Teaches English in private schools. First cartoon published in The Athenian, Greece’s largest English language magazine. Returns to St. Louis and discovers the demand for Abstract Expressionists to be inexplicably unchanged. Hired as an art instructor for the St. Louis public schools. Begins publishing cartoons in St. Louis magazine. May have dated Cheryl Crow. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
• Takes an extremely early retirement from teaching to pursue a Master’s Degree at the University of Missouri School of Journalism at Columbia. (The world’s first, and perhaps the most confusing, when everyone thinks this is the Columbia University School of Journalism, which it isn’t.)
• The confusion continues. Michael’s emphasis is in advertising. Why? Let’s just call it an uneasy relationship with the truth. He completes a thesis…in cartooning! “Who Calls The Toons” examines the relationship between cartoonists, syndicates, and readership. And the nature of that relationship? Confused.
• Other academic achievements— St. Louis Press Association scholarships, Morris E. Jacobs Fellowships for graduate work in advertising, a Newspaper Features Council stipend for the study of the impact of comic strip size on readership. (The impact? Confusing.) Michael was also staff illustrator for The Columbia Missourian and published a much-beloved comic strip (at least to him) entitled “At the Zoo” in the University of Missouri Maneater.
Enough with the bullet points. Michael toils as a copywriter by day, for catalogs such as Land’ End, and draws cartoons by night. Publishes his first cartoon for The New Yorker in the Millenium Issue— the first issue of the 21st century. His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons, The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, and The Rejection Collection I and II. His work has also appeared in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Prospect magazine in the UK.
Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker sums up Michael’s talent this way— “There are good/good cartoonists, and good/bad cartoonists. Michael is a good/bad cartoonist.” Michael (that would be me) agrees.
