Becky Barnicoat is a talented artist known for her quirky and relatable comics. Her drawings capture everyday moments and funny observations, making people smile and nod in agreement. Becky's unique style and clever humor have won her many fans around the world.
In this article, we are excited to share some of Becky's best comics about parenting. She perfectly captures the joys and challenges of raising kids with her witty and charming illustrations. Whether you're a parent or just love good humor, you might find her work both entertaining and heartwarming. Enjoy!
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Do we get bonus points if it was talking to the nurse to make a doctor's appointment?
Load More Replies...Becky Barnicoat has created drawings for many well-known places, including The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, New Statesman, Grazia, Netflix, Private Eye, The Stool Pigeon, and Five Dials. She has also done illustrations for the books Holding the Baby by Nell Frizzell and 101 Tiny Changes To Brighten Your World by Ailbhe Malone.
I wear mismatching socks on purpose to see how long (or if) it takes someone to say something.
Some of us might think, but not speak out loud ...
Load More Replies...Look, we all know the answer to this one; 2 dozen pairs of identically coloured socks. It's not rocket-science ...
After I started putting one sock inside the other of the pair while folding laundry this problem went away.
That's why I always buy black socks. They don't look dirty or sweaty and if they have the same height no one can tell the difference. On the bottom have written 2 different brands and no one can tell.
I swear there is a multiverse in my washing machine where socks are sent and never return.
It's because they love you and want yo to be a success. And pay attention to them.
Becky Barnicoat has always loved drawing and started creating cartoons when she was young. Becky even did a school project in comic book form about her future career, but her teachers didn’t appreciate it and gave her a low grade. She thinks many people don’t understand that cartoons can be serious art. “I wish I could have shown them Maus so they could see how wrong they were, but I didn’t know it existed back then."
But never make it a competition - just acknowledge that your friends are tired too. Friends are open about these things.
Becky gets her inspiration from people and their faces. She enjoys drawing faces and caricatures, especially those that have unique or odd features. She recalls drawing a caricature of one of her teachers who looked a bit like a guinea pig. Even though the teacher wasn’t one of the bad ones, she felt awful when the teacher saw the drawing and was hurt by it. "I love weird faces so much and sometimes I see people on the street and their faces are just bizarre. The odder the shape the better it is."
Kid's energy is proportional to "number of things she might get away with, right now"
When it comes to her art, Becky mostly draws from her imagination. She finds it fun to create different faces without needing references. She mainly uses pen and ink for her drawings and enjoys experimenting with other mediums like watercolors.
... and you also know that he's going to get his clothes wet and you'll have to get out and find dry ones for him. And then bathe him later tonight. You're responsible but he's in charge.
Dang, do you remember being a kid? You were not in charge.
Load More Replies...The times you'll remember as your best, are also the times you were within a grain of rice of losing it. But you (just) held it all together. Only just, but you did it
No offence and no meaning to be rude, but I genuinely don't see the point in all this. It looks to me like a terrible and exhausting job whose aim is to make your kids able to grow up and leave. So basically you have all the headaches and once the headaches are over, your kids leave. Really, what is the point?
No offense taken. I have 3 adult children who I love, but I completely understand where you are coming from.
Load More Replies...Two words they shouldn't teach in kindergarten - "Wanna" and "no". It can only end in tears
There's 'romantic' - and then there's 'realistic possibility of actually happening'. They do not inhabit the same universe
If you've got time to fuss with foliage then ... he's been quiet for rather a long time ... PANIC !
Kids are different from you and me - they 'know' that someone will make it all good for them. And you're that someone
We don't live in a museum. And our friends/family don't come to see our house. They come to see us.
My cleaning lady told us before we adopted our cat, our house used to be the third 'cleanest' in her list. (Top was some pilot who was living alone and was rarely home).
My friend's dad got so tired of his three kids drawing on the walls that he painted over it with chalkboard paint and gave them a bucket of chalk. Lol
4. Cheap wallpaper, 5. easily washable carpets, 6. large quantities of spare clothing (for both of you)
The murals, were my favourite lipstick located by my first born and given to my 2nd born who couldn't get out of her cot.
Extra points for that toilet thing if you're female and you have a son; triple points if you're male and you have a daughter. There Is No Right Answer
