HOW TO DEAL

An illustrated and ever-timely new book which brings together sly, illustrated observations about our daily anxieties, including loneliness, social anxiety, and Internet overwhelm.

A "fight or flight" manual for life (the fake one you live on the internet and the one you actually live).

Grace Miceli's How to Deal offers sly, illustrated observations about our daily anxieties: loneliness, Internet overwhelm, social anxiety, substance abuse, lack of boundaries, and all the other emotional obstacles millennials hurdle over in their earnest pursuit of mental health. With a mix of comic strips, modern day motivational posters, and illustrated lists and diary entries, the thematic chapters explore how your comfort zone may be a trap, places to hide your phone when you want to get things done (buried in the dirt of your dying houseplant...), and how to stay when you want to run away, while diary entries reveal self-imposed catastrophic thinking but also some loving introspection and a path to making peace with your demons.

The author/illustrator Grace Miceli is one of the "9 Funniest Cartoonists and Illustrators on Instagram" (Vulture), where she has 105K followers (and grows by about 1K/week). Her artwork has been featured at MoMA, the Tate Modern, The White House, and in more than 50 galleries worldwide; her clients include Nike, Urban Outfitters, Instagram, MTV, ASOS, and musical artists SZA and Carly Rae Jepsen; and she's received press from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Refinery29, Nylon, VICE, Huffington Post, and more.