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Babies!

Here at Toonstack, we don’t discriminate: we welcome a broad range of readers from all walks of life. Or all crawls of life, as the case may be. Can’t sit upright? We see you. Your favorite food is your own foot? This Toonstack is for you! This week, we’re turning our third eye (the toon eye) toward babies, our fastest-growing audience demographic (from a height and weight perspective). And now, without further ado, allow me to introduce this week’s toons with a little something in our native tongue:

Goo goo! Ga ga ga ga ga ga! *shriek* Pbbbbbbbbt. Pbbbbbbt.

-Sofia

Erika Sjule

I actually know nothing about babies– which is quite unfortunate because I am almost 8 months pregnant (send help). I know so little about babies that this cartoon is actually not a joke. I’m authentically concerned and looking for answers. If I know anything, it’s that I am about to completely lose my mind and sense of reality, which is really exciting to think about. I am about to cross some sort of partition, potentially like the one that killed Sirius Black. I am kind of excited to be “in the know” with fellow parents though and to be able to know a greater breadth of the human experience, which will hopefully inspire some delirious, sleep-deprived cartoons about how insane I am for doing this to myself.

Ellis Rosen

As a dad of a baby and a four year old, I can tell you that ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Sofia Warren

I personally do think I’m so great because I’m bipedal. I can walk from one end of my apartment all the way to the other end, and I only fall, like, one out of every five times. 

Navied Mahdavian

I’d like to think that baby Navied would be thrilled that my debut graphic memoir just came out, but it involves zero dinosaurs or references to Gecko Garage, so zero stars. 

Hilary Campbell

I’ve already signed up my unborn children for therapy. 

ToonStack NewsStack

• Catch Hilary and other New Yorker cartoonists at The New Yorker Festival’s Cartoon Improv Event on October 8th!

• Want a crash course on comics? Sofia’s teaching a 2-day comics workshop (online) through the Center for Fiction, October 7th and 8th!

• Check out Erika Sjule’s delightful Substack, Shit for Breakfast!

• Amy Kurzweil’s new book, Artificial: A Love Story, is available for preorder!

• Navied Mahdavian’s graphic memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America is out, and it’s getting rave reviews!

• Ellis Rosen’s DINK! is the perfect gift for the pickleball enthusiast in your life!

• Check out Jason Katzenstein’s Patreon!

• Amy Kurzweil teaches cartoon classes on Patreon! Sign up now to get the recording of every past class!

• Be sure to check out Shelby Lorman’s newsletter, Please Clap!

• The same goes for Sofia Warren’s advice newsletter, You’re Doing Great!

• See more cartoons from Ellis Rosen’s weekly Junk Drawer!

• Also! Hilary started a film club here on Substack!

• Wow even more comedy… if you’re in Pennsylvania, Emily Flake’s St. Nell’s is hosting it’s unagural comedy festival Nell’s Bells in October!

We, your cartoon parents, will love you unconditionally as long as you: