An ongoing collection of cartoons by Sage Stossel, a contributing editor for The Atlantic and an award-winning cartoonist for the Provincetown Banner, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere. She is the author/illustrator of the children’s books On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, D.C., and On the Loose in Philadelphia, and of the graphic novel Starling, which is serialized at GoComics.com.
With the Granite State’s nominating contest once again approaching, and
some people—as in past years—questioning why its primary deserves to come first (Reince Priebus, chairman of the RNC, recently expressed interest in instituting "a rotating primary process" or a "random lottery"), this 2012 cartoon still seems applicable four years later:
This week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a recommendation that women be screened for depression both during pregnancy and after giving birth, as approximately one in seven new mothers are thought to experience depressive symptoms.
If anything is going to make a person depressed, the discombobulation of new motherhood would certainly do it (as this cartoonist can attest.) The multi-paneled cartoon below—attempting a somewhat lighter spin on the experience—first appeared in 2014 and became one of most widely shared from Sage, Ink. (A year later, the publication of a study revealing the extreme toll that new parenthood takes on happiness prompted a followup cartoon.)