Category: Babies & Parenting

Happy Mother’s Day

I know it’s been a while since I last posted… life has been busy with 4 littles, teaching and my Master’s. However, I’m glad I got a couple of hours to myself to ink this! My first Y+Y cartoon of 2024! Eek! Happy Mother’s Day!!  

The Latest

Happy New Year!! So it’s been a while since I’ve last posted a new cartoon. Reason being is, we welcomed a baby girl in September! 🙂 Baby #4 aaaaaaand we’re done! I can’t wait until I have a bit more time to continue drawing but alas I am also starting my Master’s. Yikes, what am…

PNE Fun

PNE = Pacific National Exhibition In the last hurrah of what residual summer was left, I took the kids to the fair last week. The twins are now just about fully potty-trained and thus I spent a good chunk of time with them just lining up for the bathrooms! LOL My biggest fear is what…

Earning Money

To celebrate my husband and I’s 12th anniversary, I present to you a joke inspired by him. LOL

Cow You Doin’?

So, my main characters are on holidays this week 🙂 Today’s comic features guest star Dr. Dena!! 🙂

Day for Father

Ok, a late post. One more hour before it’s no longer Father’s Day! Phewf! I didn’t have a natural punchline to work with so this required a bit of thinking… I have so many ideas to ink out but when it comes to drawing holiday cartoons, I sometimes flounder. If an idea doesn’t come naturally,…

Tooth Fairy

It’s been a busy week. Forgive the lateness. Ugh. I always try my best to post before the weekend is technically over but sometimes I’ll have to stay up to finish the cartoon. I’m pretty proud of myself that I’ve been able to keep up to publishing once a week ever since even before the…

Deep Conversation

My daughter just lost her first couple of teeth so I may just start a little series on that. Have a great weekend, y’all! 🙂 Laura

Day Off

Happy Mother’s Day!! 🙂

Beeee

So this literally happened with the twins…. LOL they are deathly afraid of bugs!

Story Time

I think people need to realize that my cartoons are loosely based on reality, but a lot is borne from my own imagination or projection of my own character flaws. Today’s cartoon is basically what happens to me when I’m spent at the end of the day, having put the twins to bed and if…

Spring Break

Be safe, stay calm, wash your hands… aaaaaaaaaaand Have a great Spring Break!!!!!!!!! Ms. Yang

Glutton

So this week we had wonton for dinner and one of my favourite accompaniments is this spicy pickled radish. My son is CRAAAZY about it… and this week’s cartoon is just a reflection of that 🙂

Dinnerrr!!!

Growing up, we had a streamlined system for our dinner routine. My dad would sharply sound the dinner alarm (his voice) to send us 4 girls into a flurry, scrambling to the kitchen to help set the table. He was the chef and he did not like to wait. Today, I follow in my father’s…

Noisy Break

True story… this amazing ob-gyn is also a goat enthusiast 🙂 Happy early early Birthday Dr. D! 🙂 xoxo Laura

Big Owie

So I already had a punchline figured out but before I finished the last frame when my husband stumbled over and suggested a couple of alternate endings that weren’t half bad! It got me thinking, maybe I should open it up to the audience to pitch their ideas! And so I did…  people suggested some…

2021 Wants

If anyone’s interested, I’ve got a 1-minute time lapse video of this on my Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/yangstercomics) that shows my process of drawing. You can see where I struggle when I draw… In the meantime, I wish you all a very healthy and happy new year in 2021!! -Laura

Birthday Gift

It just so happens that today is my older sister’s birthday and mine is 4 days later! 🙂 The punchline for this came to me as I was running through some scenarios in my head whilst doing some sit-ups the other day. I find I get in the zone for comic ideas best when working…

Change

I probably spent too much time trying to get the shading right. If anyone wants to know how to shade terribly, hit me up! LOL Oh gosh, I need help! :p  

Mine!

The other day, I brought the munchkins to a park. Now, all 3 of the them are very possessive with their toys and food. Naturally, when I made the mistake of bringing only one bag of Ritz sandwich crackers (my favourite!) to share amongst the 3 of them, some bickering ensued. My ears could only…

kids freak out over a tic tac thinking it's a tick

Tick Tock

Soooooooo yes, the title is a bit misleading… lol I guess on purpose! I love the element of surprise in a cartoon, don’t you? 🙂 Tick sightings have increased in our area where it was previously presumed tick-free! And since I’m uber paranoid of Lyme Disease, I’m always warning my kids about ticks. Add in…

Poke’s on You

This week, I had a lot of new ideas for comics to draw but I chose the simplest one. Some other punchlines that have taken a back seat include this year’s particularly bad mosquito population, overtired mom, what’s for dinner and a duck cartoon. LOL Today’s cartoon was inspired by a true event, though not…

Twin Talk

So the twins have turned 2 this past week. Since their language started forming, I decided to try a little experiment: I would speak to them exclusively in my imperfect and learned Chinese while my husband speaks to them in English. As you can imagine, it’s been fun communicating in our house! Lol. Inevitably, one…

The B-Word

I must confess. There is a word that irks me to my core. It is the B-word… When I hear someone say “I’m boooored” or “This is booooring”, it sets off a mix of emotions within. Annoyance, exasperation, and a general sense of “so what?!” To me, being bored isn’t a bad thing! In fact,…

Fly Away

Even though it’s Julyuary on the west coast of Canada here (current temperature of 20C or 68F), the summer flies are alive and well. Though, due to cooler and wet conditions, the mosquitoes are particularly bad :s One of my pet peeves is the darned house fly, also known as the “poo fly” in our…

Uncertain Times

So I was talking to a friend and basically while discussing plans during these COVID times to be “up in the air”, the thought of my husband’s career flashed in my mind. Here’s a cartoon from a few years ago just to refresh your memory. （http://yangstercomics.com/life/happy-anniversary/） Once upon a time, he was on the 777…

Pretend

Tis true! I’m allergic to cats, even pretend ones! 🙂

Mother’s Day 2020

I hope you have been fortunate enough to have a mother, or mother figure in your life that has been as blessed as mine! My mom has been a strong influence in my life as I’ve inherited her sense of humour, zest for life and insane good looks (just kidding! haha) as well as her…

What Butt?

So ever since this whole Covid thing went down, my dear toddler children have been extremely clingy to me! Argh!! There’s so much whining and crying (and not exclusive to the little people) and my husband said it’s worse when I’m home! Imagine that!!! As a math teacher I usually strike fear into the hearts…

Screen Time

So I decided to get back up on the horse… I hope you all are safe, healthy and not going too stir-crazy. -Laura

Finish Dinner

I currently have a couple hundred ideas on what cartoons to draw each week. Sometimes I like to mix it up with current events-inspired themes but lately, amidst all the negativity, fear and panic in the media, I’ve decided to take a break long enough to draw out an imagined scenario as inspired by reality….

Mouth Sleeper

Sooooooo I’m so stoked… For a while now I’ve been experimenting with fonts a bit. Mostly, I would write out all the text by myself and recently downloaded Cyanide and Happiness’s font to use in my own cartoons. It didn’t feel quite right as my own, I suppose, because it wasn’t my own! LOL Well,…

Use Your Words

This week my 5 year old daughter came home from school claiming she was punched in the face by a male classmate. Uh-oh, here we go again… dramaramarama. I listened to her and let her explain what she could but secretly I’m the first to quickly dismiss her claims. She did have noticeable darker indentation…

Chinese New Year

This cartoon took me a bit longer than normal to complete because… I’ve been obsessing over the coronavirus that’s currently got a portion of China in lockdown! The stuff ya hear, read, watch on Chinese social media through personal contacts or otherwise paints a far graver picture than what is currently being reported in official…

Typical Toddler

Ugh… I spent way too much time on this trying to figure out how to watercolour on the tablet using Clip Studio. Epic fail. Not really the look I was going for. Looks too washed out. Can any experienced among you suggest how to make it look less faint and more strong? Does that even…

Good Start 2020

Happy New Year! Just when I was about to draw about zits, this beautiful true story happened the other day. I was floored, flooooored I tells yas!! 🙂 The cashier was stunned at how old I really am. LOL Oh the simple pleasures in life, as we get older! Hope your holidays were full of…

Live Gifts

Well, sorry for the late post… Seeing that today IS my birthday, I figured I could get away with a groaner of a punchline. LOL Merry Christmas Eve, Everyone! -Laura

Wanted Attention

Sorry, I’ve been slipping a bit further behind on my cartoons. It’s not because I’ve lost motivation… never!! It’s just Life swamps you down sometimes and if I could choose between sleep and drawing cartoons, guess which I’d choose?? Lol Such was the case this past week… I’ve been working on a top secret project…

Baby Economics 101

So even though I had a cartoon ready, I skipped posting a cartoon last week and I feel terrible. The OCD in me hounds me to post once weekly and I’ve managed to do that since the twins were born so for about 16 months (or I guess that would be about 66 weeks) but…

Floor Washing

For all you grammar natzis… lol (I hope i got it right).  

Family Resemblance

Is anyone else guilty of this? Hahaha I say this in jest, but not. Or am i? I think it’s just a coping mechanism.. lol But also, this was exactly how a conversation went! 🙂  

What’s for Breakfast?

Oh darn, I didn’t think this one through… It’s Canadian Thanksgiving this Monday! D’oh! I just thought it would be a good time to draw another zombie edition cartoon. I’m sure there’s a joke out there about this but I honestly just thought one day how close the punchline sounded to “scrambled eggs”.  

Highs and Lows

Just to clarify, my autobiographical cartoons are often times exaggerated and other times just plain truthful. To my recollection, my husband and I have never had this interaction. It’s more a dialogue I’ve had with a friend. I have a friend. This friend is unmarried. Whenever I comment on how challenging/exhausting/busy family life is to…

Old and Fat

This is the reason I don’t like looking in the mirror… I want to deny the reality that I am no longer young and fit… that my body no longer repairs itself as fast as it once did. The aches, the pains, the stretch marks and cellulite I suppose are a badge to motherhood, or…

Hand Hygiene

I am very militant about hand hygiene (thus these scaly dry hands of mine) and my twin girl is very flexible… and boom! A cartoon is born! 🙂 I think the hardest thing in creating this cartoon was getting the colours “right”. I always want my cartoons to be colourful but there can’t be too…

Pigsty

As I sit here at my tablet, listening to the thunderous roar of the rainstorm pelting down outside, I realize that perhaps with the changing of the seasons, I have grown a bit unmotivated to draw my beloved cartoons. My grade 12 world lit teacher called this “internalization of landscape” or was it “externalization of…

First Day

As a teacher, I secretly hope that my children will love learning and love school. My daughter has met her kindergarten teacher for about 20 minutes but doesn’t officially have her first day until Monday so the idea for this cartoon came a couple of years prior when a friend’s daughter was asked this question…

I… I…

We were fortunate enough to be able to travel sans 1 y old twins to Europe a couple of weeks ago (Mucho thanks to my parents and sister). First stop was Berlin for 4 very short nights to attend my friend’s beautiful wedding and then 5 nights in Scotland where we visited “Grandma” Jessie, a…

Swim Ring

So it was our 10 year anniversary yesterday, the hubs and i. I thought I’d just have him featured in today’s cartoon. Nothing lovey-dovey, just some good ol’ fashioned Dad joke humour 🙂 Inspiration for this came up during an actual conversation. My husband can be quite literal at times so it’s tough to get…

Pen & Ink

Last week, one of my favourites to follow on social media posted that for his birthday this year, among other things, he’d accept some arts made from his cartoon characters. Now, I couldn’t pull this off in time, so I decided to make this a belated gift for him. Dee Parson is a professional cartoonist…

Baby’s First Word

Ain’t this the truth? lol So i drew this with only one baby since drawing the twins is a bit challenging in each panel, plus there simply isn’t enough space for the second twin nor was it necessary. Also, I’m just not that great of an artist to be able to change up the vantage…

1 Year Olds!!

Well, today marks the 1 year anniversary from whence these twinkies entered the world. Life is a blur as everyday truly is survival. That old age cliche is true, the days are long but the years are short! And just a disclaimer, no, we do not let our children climb on counters to knock vases…

Rejecting Food

I’ve heard of twins switching roles unintentionally (or not) complementing each other. However, I did not expect this in my fraternal twins. Perhaps it may be a coincidence? I’m baffled that my previously good eater, the boy, is now starting to shun food! And yet, the girl is picking up where he left off!! I…

Messy Mess

This is the cartoon I had initially started inking up for last week. I went a little overboard on the mess, I think. Then, I hit a roadblock pertaining to getting some desired effect so it’s taken me some time to get it sorted. My daughter is this sassy, but it didn’t exactly play out…

Preschool Grad

This last week of June, my oldest daughter just graduated from preschool. I heard I may tear up and cry. Did I? Nope. It was also the last day for me at my school where it was home for the last 10 years. I feared I would cry at the goodbye presentations. Did I? Double…

Second Opinion

Literally, a true story… every day!! Hahaha Though, it’s hilarious and cute when one of the babies toot. Unlike non-babies…. LOL Happy Father’s Day!!

Sleeping Poorly

I wake up 2 or 3 times a night per twin… why can’t I sleep train them?!! Maybe I’ve become so feeble-hearted in my old age. Lately the twins have sprouted some little nuggets of teeth so the past few days have been particularly whiney and painful for them. Lots of extra hugs and cuddles…

Sleeping Babies

*sigh* They’re 10 months old and still don’t sleep through the night. My oldest slept through the night since she was 2 months old. Easy baby she was! And now, we enter the twinkies! 🙂 My boy likes to scream a very high-pitched soul-piercing scream that wears on you like nails on a chalkboard. I…

Feeding Solids

The twins are 10 months old now and have been on solids for half their life! I’ve been waiting for the inevitable jagged edges of baby teeth cutting through their gums as my oldest had her first tooth appear at 7 months. Finally, fiiiiinally my girl just cut her first tooth. The boy is still…

Flowers for Mom

When we go for walks, my daughter has learned to smell the roses and daisies, and tulips and rhododendrons and… that’s the extent of my knowledge of flowers. The point is, she notices flowers…. Every. Last. One. She knows not to pluck them but to enjoy them with her eyes. However, the little loose weedy…

Mommy Superpowers

I got carried away with this one. I just wanted to pay a nice tribute to all the overworked and often underappreciated moms out there. Raising children is the hardest but most important thing I’ve ever had to endure, especially when they come at you with sass they’ve inherited! Ugh!! They force me to be…

Squirmy

The twins are squirming a lot these days. Changing diapers requires a distracting toy to keep them from rolling around. My husband calls them squirmy wormies so naturally it got me thinking… I initially story boarded this in my head with 3 panels of a squirmy wormy all the same size but as I sketched…

Unpredictable

So the twins are sitting up nicely now at 9 months. One is a screamer. So. Loud. Is. She. It’s more like squeals of delight, at her loudest volume. And it often comes without warning. How to discourage? But she’s happy?!! Though our ears ring. Sigh.

Bamboo Flavour

Being a mom is exhausting. As such, cleaning house is a lowwww priority, with the exception of the kitchen. Consequently, dust bunnies run rampant in our main living spaces. This is why I need to have friends over. Only then will I make an effort to clean up a bit! Haha, otherwise, dust bunnies be…

Needing a Break

I am naturally a pretty high energy person, even before kids. The aroma of coffee never did anything for me until my pregnancy with the twins. It was almost like I wanted so badly what I was now not able to drink so much of. I indulged maybe once a week, maximum one cup per…

Baby vs Dog

Anyone else have a very drooly baby? I’ve been meaning to ink this one for a while ever since one of the twins started drooling like mad! I thought I’d also coincide it with the first time the dog is introduced! Still not sure yet what to name her on Yin + Yangster. My dog…

Sleeping Babies

So my daughter has a terrible habit of barging in on me when I’m putting the babies to sleep and I have a terrible habit of forgetting to lock the door. Other times, she just calls out to me, as reported in today’s cartoon strip!

Parenting Teamwork

Sooooooooooo Yin + Yangster initially was set out to be a single-panel, clean, family-friendly strip replete with clever puns and hilarious situations fiction or not. Today it has morphed into a somewhat biographical parenting strip. And what’s parenting without poop? So much poop because poop x2 (for twins)! You can’t escape a day without being…

Floundering

This is always what comes to mind when my twins are in ‘tummy time’. For those unaware, it’s the time you place baby on their tummies to strengthen their neck muscles until they can roll over. My boy especially, he’d basically flail out vigorously, but in place. Is it mean that I find it funny?

Cry Cry Cry

Soooooo this parenting business can be rough. My first daughter was a relatively easy baby, sleeping 12h and napping twice a day by about 3 months. Oh and she ate like a champ. Bolstered with confidence as new parents, we’ll have more kids, we said. Twins. Are. A. Whole. Different. Ballgame. I’ve been bouncing back…

Fussy Eater

This is art imitating life. My formerly easy going child who ate everything has become this opinionated picky eater. This conversation literally happened exactly as is, minus the Frenchy bits. Anyone else have kids who are picky eaters??

Shopping Accessory

Oh maaaaan, it’s been a tough little go here. I haven’t slept properly for almost 6 months now. That’s how long the twins have been around. So please forgive me for my incoherent sentences and imperfect grammar. They’ve been waking up a lot the last few days. 2-5 times each baby. I am the only…

Tender Moment

Happy New Year, everyone! 🙂 First cartoon of 2019!! Goodness, it’s 2019… that means our high school 20th reunion is this year, if anyone is inclined to plan it *not me!* Phewf, just in case we were playing that game! lol May your 2019 be *smack* full of goodies coming your way! 🙂 *hyuk hyuk*…

Baby Translator

Well, as 2018 wraps up I just wanted to thank all of you for supporting my cartoons simply by viewing them, sharing them, liking my facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/yangstercomics/ – please like if you haven’t already :D) and commenting online or in person to let me know that you do enjoy them. The last few weeks…