Late post, but not before midnight so still technically Friday here (PST)! Soooooo I’m STILL not in the Christmas mindset as I’m surviving day by day. This cartoon went through a couple of revisions. Initially I had “He’s pooping” and last frame “Correction: he’s manpooping” but my mom didn’t like the poop references. Plus the…
Category: Babies & Parenting
More Bosom
True story. Not the punchline, but the thought that occurred to me. I love cuddling these little helpless human beings. They have no choice but to rest in my chest. Problem is, I only have one chest. One baby per chest is what I figure to be most comfortable. So OF COURSE, greedy lil ol’…
Postpartum Weight
So I’ve been experimenting with different comic formats. Most of my readers view my comics on cell phones so in an effort not to spoil the punchline too soon (this is extremely important to me), I’ve used the “vertical scroll” format. It is a lot easier just doing a simple “square” format that fits nicely…
BFing
Sooooooooo it’s been a bit of a week, shall we say. Keep in mind I have 4 month old twins, a 4 year old and a tiny dog that just doesn’t seem to get enough attention. I’ve been having a tough time juggling 3 young kids. Though, 3 IS the right number to juggle, isn’t…
Feeding Time?
This is often how I’d gauge whether it was time to feed or not.
Mommy Hair
One of my biggest pet peeves right now is the amount of hair I am shedding! It is everywhere! Well, no, not really but it certainly feels that way! I see it on my twins’ faces, on my sweaters, T-shirts, the bathroom sink and floor… and don’t even get me started on the amount I…
Earworm
I once read an article on useful German words that the English language could probably adopt. One such word is Ohrwurm, or earworm. Fluentu.com describes it this way: Have you ever listened to a song on the radio while driving to work only to find yourself still humming the same tune by lunch time? Congratulations, you’ve had…
Me Time
It’s amazing what an invigorating shower can do! I remember at the hospital after having the twins, I didn’t shower for a couple of days. I was in so much pain and my body was trying so hard to recover it didn’t even cross my mind to take a shower. One of the nurses suggested…
Crying Babies
So this isn’t my best work. It took me a lot longer to finish this piece and I’m not totally satisfied with it. I definitely rushed the colouring and I couldn’t figure out a few things in the art program I use which I think led to inefficient inking. For the sake of my self-imposed…
Good Sleep?
These days sleep is very scant. Even when the twins are asleep at the same time, I should be too! I just find myself drawn (pardon the pun LOL) to making the most of the day, alas here I am at 2:16am in the morning. I can’t rest until it’s done! X__X
What’s Wrong?!
As I watch myself go through the check list of a crying baby: Diaper clean? Check. Baby fed? Check. Baby burped? Check. Baby gassy? Check. Baby tired? Check. Baby warm enough? Check. I realized, what if there’s something causing the crying that ISN’T part of the checklist? And then, I imagined what it could be…
Awww Baby!
So this was the cartoon I had on the back burner last week so that I could ink this cartoon. I don’t really have any further comments except to say #truth.
Baby Reflexes
So basically my goal is to publish a cartoon a week, it seems for the most part Fridays. When I draw multi-panel comics, I try hard to storyboard everything within 4 panels, always with the intention of writing as few words as possible. Sometimes I get it right, other times a miss. With this particular…
Mommy Brain
Aiyai yai…. so Mommy Brain is on full drive! I can’t seem to remember anything important anymore. Explaining Mommy Brain to my toddler probably wasn’t a good idea either (chalk it up to Mommy Brain). She tells everyone that the twins ate Mommy’s brains so Mom’s not smart anymore. Hahaha I guess it is partially…
Tired Mama
Sleep, anyone? 🙂 A special shout out to my fellow sleep-deprived but ambitious mamas.
Moodela
Ahhhhh the pains of motherhood….
Innocent Question
I always naively thought that after giving birth, your weight would instantaneously bounce back to what it was pre-pregnancy. Boy was I wrong! There are a lot of factors that contribute to how long it takes for our bodies to shrink back to some semblance of normal. Sometimes, it shrinks back to a “new normal”….
Baby Burp
Yep, so…. speaking from experience, the Mommy Brain thing is verrrrrrry real. Thought of this cartoon while I was hallucinating from lack of sleep. Or maybe, I wasn’t hallucinating? HAHA! I guess I’ll never know, or will I?? *sigh*
Sleep Training
The book is titled “Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins” (by Marc Weissbluth, M.D.)
Old Faithful
So I’ve been a bit busy… Two weeks ago I gave birth to twins and have lived the hermit lifestyle since. I am dying to ink all the ideas that have inevitably come out of this special sleep-deprived time (isn’t that how Salvador Dali got a lot of his ideas, while in a state of…
Mewey on Raising Daughters
My dad was always outnumbered growing up. Under one roof he had to share his castle with Mom, 4 daughters and 2 female dogs… 🙂 In retrospect, I’m grateful to him because he always taught us to be independent and self-sufficient women. I always joke that since he had no sons, he compensated by raising…
Mewey on Having Sons
So back in June, I along with my 3 sisters planned a 40th anniversary celebration for our folks. My mom’s name is May, and my dad’s name is Dewey, hence the name Mewey 🙂 I drew up a few cartoons summarizing life with them which I’ll slowly leak out over the next few days. I…
Baaad Pun
Perhaps a bit of an inside joke for only those who are lucky enough to know this brilliant and sassy doctor! 🙂
Gassy Baby
Aaaaaaaaaaaand rooooooooound 2! 🙂
Swollen Members
So I’ve got a series of pregnancy cartoons I’d like to ink but I wanted to do them chronologically to sort of journal the entire process. Today, I felt I had to post something that was relevant to my current status so alas, here we are! 🙂 It’s been a pretty stressful week with a…
Body Builder
Happy Mother’s Day 2018! 🙂
It’s Snot
So we all came back from San Diego a little bit plugged up and under the weather. In particular, my daughter had this persistent train of snot that would just peer out from time to time only to be slurped back inside. Only after a sneeze would its gargantuan size be fully revealed. Anyway, I…
Zombie Parent
So the Walking Dead is back on again so I decided to draw another zombie cartoon, mixed with parenting.
Don’t Shoot
One of my friends is a very talented photographer and an amazing mother of two. We have a lot to laugh about when we’re together so it’s no surprise that she supplies me with good cartoon fodder. She is a strong and independent woman through and through even when Life hands her lemons — she…
Kid Named Bean
I have a threenager… The drawing of this cartoon was cathartic. That is all.
Thanksgiving 2017
So I’m just not with it enough to crank out a cartoon a day for #inktober. I didn’t even know there were themes to abide by! Whoops! I guess I’ll just keep with the regularly scheduled program… It’s Thanksgiving in Canada today… I’m very thankful for God, good health, supportive family and awesome friends! 🙂…
How Toddlers Eat
Anyone who has contact with a toddler during mealtime knows my pain… at least my child and my friends with kids seem to eat at the same rate. I wonder if they all band together and conspire to test their parents’ patience one painfully slow bite at a time.
Introducing Bean
Today is my daughter’s birthday so what better way to celebrate than to introduce her into the strip? She has provided us with so much laughter it’s only fair for me to share. Happy 3rd Birthday, Bean!
Wrong Feet
So sometimes my mind just wanders…
Hurry Up
I truly believe that one of life’s greatest pleasures is to watch children (and people) grow and mature. This is why I’m a teacher… I love the payoff of watching students learn and better themselves over the years. There’s nothing like witnessing and maybe contributing to human progress before your very eyes. I have a Taiwanese…
Zebra Crossing
Searching through my archives, I found this unpublished piece. In Chinese, the word(s) for crosswalk is “斑馬線” which literally translates to “zebra route/line”. It didn’t take much for me to get inspired 🙂
Frozen Toys
Another oldie. With the monster success this mega blockbuster movie has enjoyed coupled with its title, it was just a matter of time before this corny cartoonist struck again. 🙂 Dedicated to all you cool dads.
Baby Jesus’ Birthday
Happy Belated Birthday, Baby Jesus! Got the idea from a cartoon I’ve seen before of an old man whose shadow depicted his younger self as a soldier. Pretty cool, I say! My drawing foreshadows (pardon the pun) what is to come for Baby Jesus.
Last Christmas Song
So this time last year I was churning out a cartoon a day, black ink on white paper. I’m now in the process of upgrading them digitally so that they’re in COLOUR. That seems to be the preference amongst my peoples… so please excuse these *reruns*. By the way, “StrongStart is a FREE early learning drop-in…
Naughty Kid
Well, with only a few more sleeps to Christmas I’d better get cracking on my Christmas cartoons! Here’s the latest from yours truly. Also, it happens to be my older sister’s birthday! Happy Birthday, Sarah! As for the cartoon’s inspiration, my sister DOES happen to have a large mop of hair… lol jk. L
Dinner Served
Well, today marks the first day of Christmas vacation for students and teachers. It’s been quite chilly here in the Vancouver region as temperatures hovered around -8C (which is around 18F). Needless to say, I thought it might be nice for us to get a bit of “sun” even if in cartoon. I dug up…
Young Pediatrician
Alright, time to flush out some cartoons drawn a while back. Here’s a nice cornball cartoon for ya! 🙂 Inspiration just came from my succinct definition of ‘pediatrician’.
Supreme Toddler
This probably isn’t too funny unless you’ve had contact with an unreasonably capricious toddler. The idea came about when I took my daughter swimming and she flipped out when I gave her the blue paddle dive board thingy vs the pink one. Oh dear. It was as though the sirens for WWIII had just sounded….
Kiddie Trap
Halloween just passed and the kid did great pulling in a major haul to feed Mom and Dad’s addiction to sugar. She went as a purple dinosaur. It was glorious. Her tail almost caught fire as it brushed up against a jack-o-lantern’s internal and very lit candle. Anyway, this cartoon was done a while back…
Quit Playin’
This cartoon took forever to draw. I couldn’t get the perspective on the table right… I laboured over the placement of the chess pieces… and yes, to all the chess lovers out there, I do realize a chess board is 8×8. It was too hard to draw that out completely. I must admit, one of…
Happy Birthday
So today was the munchkin’s 2nd birthday. I decided to post up a birthday-esque cartoon that I drew up a couple months ago. I was experimenting with a more New Yorker style but think my cartoons are still a bit too cartoony, if that makes any sense. Anyway, now that she’s full-swing into the Terrible…
Gesundheit
Just another example of art imitating life 🙂
Ball In Cup
Ah, the good ol’ ball in cup. I find it rather fun! It teaches skills of perseverance, intense focus and a desire to refine the flick of the wrist technique. Plus it’s low-tech and costs little. Finally nestling that ball right into that cup is its own reward. Even better, it can keep kids busy…
Fat Dog
Full credit for the idea of THIS CARTOON WHY IS THIS ALL CAPS?? FEELS LIKE I’M SHOUTING… *Ahem* as I was saying, full credit for the idea of this cartoon goes to my husband 🙂 Our dog is a little 7 lb Toy Fox Terrier, but man can she eat. In fact, I’m quite grateful…
Bed Jumping
I was in Mexico when I drew this up. Inspiration came from my almost 2 year old. She was having the time of her life jumping and flopping on the bed, which led to the thought of “I told you not to jump on the bed”. The fish bowl cartoon is replete with punchlines waiting…
Teaching Manners
Well I’ve just come back from Mexico a little swarthier, a little heavier and certainly itchier than before. It was a nice relaxing vacation where all I had to do was eat, lounge in the pool and sleep. Lethargy and perhaps diet made me susceptible to preying mosquitoes. Ugh, how I hate them. I practically…
Cutie Patootie
As I take my dog and baby for walks in the summer, I realize that there are 2 kinds of people I encounter: those that notice dogs and those that notice babies. I have a 22 month old daughter who is pretty darned cute (no momma bias whatsoever) and I also happen to have a…
Kid Logic
As the Math 10 co-ordinator of my school, I’m responsible for creating/coordinating math exams for the entire grade (midterm, final, provincial exam). In years past, the cover page of the provincial exam review package that I have photocopied for the kiddies usually consists of some math clip art courtesy of Word. This year, however, I decided to come…
Rubber Chicken
The Province, May 15, 2016 So I haven’t updated in a week! Yikes! Reason being is my Chinese money-saving instincts kicked in to high drive as I was working hard at meeting a couple of Groupon deadlines. I was determined NOT to lose out on the added monetary value as I bought a few Photobook…
Itsy Bitsy
My favourite part of this cartoon is its cute little bum 🙂
Baby Powder
The Province, May 1, 2016 Often times, people will say, “Don’t take things too literally”. Well, I’m an expert at taking things literally and it’s suited me fine, thank you very much. In fact, it’s helped me produce a lot of ideas for cartoons. Take for example today’s cartoon. I was using some cornstarch-based baby…
Quit It!
Parenting is tough, ESPECIALLY when you’re hungry. Even more so if you’re a hamster mom. Did you know that hamsters are known to eat their young? I had no idea! The random things you learn from Google! This comic was drawn for a very sweet cousin of mine who has two lovely children 🙂 Disclaimer: Some…
Big bird
I love Sesame Street. I grew up on Sesame Street. And now my daughter watches enough Sesame Street. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I’m not above scat humour. Sorry?? I do do that sort of stuff. See what I did there? I’m even related to some cousins that made their entire wedding theme all about flatulence! A smelly…
Tot Humpty
A toddler, have I. Wobbly and unsteady. Running, lumbering, falling. -Laura Yang Ok not quite a haiku. Poems were never really my strong suit. Nevertheless, my daughter’s in that phase where she only has 2 modes while in transit: running or falling and nothing in between. She’s either running full speed with head bobbing and…
Hard Hat
One day as I combed my daughter’s hair, I noticed a strand of white hair. Immediately, I thought incredulously, “What the heck does she have to be stressed out for?!” And then, it fell away. It was my dog’s white fur. She sheds like a beast and yet she’s only 7 lbs. So I just…
Baby Galileo
After becoming a parent and since being published, the ideas on cartooning about babies has been nonstop. I can’t keep up. There isn’t enough time in a day to whip them all up. This particular cartoon happened when I was flustered trying to make dinner and my toddler was clamoring for my attention. She wanted…