Maximumble: Is this your punishment or mine?
This comic has me wondering if its creator, Chris Hallbeck, is pretty much a psychic or some kind of wise man. I know I’ve leveled privilege-removing threats at my kids and been mentally praying to myself that it works, because if it doesn’t… ugh. So much more work. It’s like a bluff almost. When […]
Maximumble: Sex Ed Astronomy
FROM THE ARTIST, CHRIS HALLBECK: “I remember my mom telling me “The mommy and daddy kiss and he has a little squirt gun that shoots into her body.” I imagined a green plastic squirt gun in the back of his throat that squirted into her mouth and then went down to her belly where […]
Maximumble: Jump on the Couch
FROM THE ARTIST, CHRIS HALLBECK: As my children grow up there are lots of rules they have to learn: Don’t throw things in the house. Don’t sit on the table. Don’t put the dog in the toilet. I’m the main rule enforcer. My recitation of the rules are usually followed by a “That’s not […]
Maximumble: Suns & Daughters
[CLICK HERE TO ENLARGE] FROM THE ARTIST, CHRIS HALLBECK: “While my wife puts the baby to bed each night, I get to handle the bedtime routine with our 5-year-old. After story time we turn the lights out and talk. Mainly, we talk about the day. Things he did, stuff that was fun, what he learned. […]
