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This is part of a comic panel I am working on currently about the new born stage of parenting and just how exhausting and crazing it can feel when you are trying to satisfy the needs of an insatiable and unhappy infant. I showed it to my husband and he laughed out loud but added,
“Get rid of the Hitler mustache. It’s kind of offensive”.
I have to admit I kind of like it. Some art is meant to be offensive. But just to be sure I uploaded two versions. The “clean shaven version” and the original. What do you think?
“Domestic squalor is dark and serious. It leaves behind guilt or sadness. Anger bestows on you a portrait of your soul. It is often followed by guilt. The portrait is more detailed if you have children.”
-Anne Roiphe, Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World