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The Elements of Stress: And the Pursuit of Happy-ish in This Current Sh*tstorm, a parody of The Elements of Style, is described as “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.”

It includes 40 “stress-defusing cartoons from Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw, two of the world’s best gag cartoonists, “to help readers handle all the anxiety in today’s new world disorder. (It’s) the perfect gift for fans of the original Elements of Style or anyone who has had it up to here.”  

Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, writer, New Yorker cartoonist, snowman expert and author of The New York Times’ bestselling Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores. His cartoons, op-eds and short stories appear worldwide regularly including The New York Times, New York Daily News, MAD magazine, Reader’s Digest, The Spectator, Prospect, Wall Street Journal and Playboy, among many others. He is the world's only snowman expert — he wrote the holiday classic, The Illustrated History of the Snowman.

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.