Babies are always cute, but they’re not always easy! In these cartoons, people admit their doubts about the diaper-set.
“I’ve come to see the guys who’s going around claiming to be my brother!” By Henry Boltinoff December 28, 1940“How simple it sounds. ‘Two drops in each nostril.’” By Ray Helle December 25, 1948“You can only take a peek at your father now. He’s still a little faint.” By John M. Price December 6, 1941“How soon does he start being a constant source of joy and amusement?” By Rodney deSarro December 4, 1943“They just collapsed, doctor. I think it’s lack of sleep.” December 2, 1944“If you must know, we’re playing a game and the name of it is ‘Where’s baby?’” December 30, 1944“Just think—some day he might be vice-president!” By Robert Hoyt December 30, 1944“Last one out has to stay home with the baby!” By George Reckas December 1, 1945“It’s not that I don’t like him, dear. We just don’t seem to have any interests in common.” By Mary Gibson December 15, 1945“We know what happens to bad little boys who won’t eat their cereal, don’t we?” By Charles Saxon December 15, 1945
“I’ve called you in, Hawkins, to remind you that you’re supposed to laugh ‘Ho, ho, ho’ not ‘Tee, hee, hee.’” By Chon Day December 19, 1942 By Ed Hunter December 12, 1942“That, my friend, is for the next person who looks in the pot and asks me ‘What’s cookin’?’” By John M. Price December 16, 1944“Why can’t I? This is my lunch hour.” By Bo Brown December 20, 1941“All I want to know is what gave you the idea I wanted the complete works of Dickens last Christmas?” By Frank Beaven December 28, 1940“Should there be a man in a red suit sticking out of our chimney?” By Rodney DeSarro December 23, 1944