Get Used To It: Words, Thoughts and Drawings

Is cartooning the way to a healthier, less stressful life? Artist Muriel Scheps is convinced it just may be. "We all have things in our lives that we find unbearable, yet can't seem to make go away. When this happens, our friends and relatives often us give us the advice, "Get used to it." Of course, that's much easier said than done," Ms. Schneps says. "When it comes to getting used to it, a cartoon can do wonders. Maybe that's why most people who pick of a copy of The New Yorker, read the cartoons first. It's a quick way to distance one's self from the problems of day by laughing it all off." Get Used to It, a collection of Schneps' original, light-hearted, often bizarre and flat-out funny cartoons, will be released in summer 2020 by San Francisco-based IFSF Publishing. According to her publisher, Brooks Roddan, the book itself came about in a completely unexpected way. "I've known Muriel for years," said Roddan. "I knew her as a fine artist, an accomplished painter, but didn't know