Some comics make you laugh. Nathalie Jomard comics make you laugh, then glance around the room to check whether she hid a camera in your kitchen.
Her panels live in the small, unglamorous moments nobody photographs: the toddler meltdown over pasta cut the “wrong” way, the cat ignoring a fresh bowl of water, the brand-new vacuum that dies after two minutes. She draws them with clean lines, rosy cheeks, soft blue speech bubbles, and a punchline that usually lands in a single panel.
If you follow parenting humor or cat comics on Instagram, you’ve probably shared one of hers without knowing the name behind it. Here are 20 of her funniest comics, from a hazmat-suit diaper change to a mom who turns into “the Creature of the Petrifying Cocoon” after a long day. Tag the person who needs to see number 5.
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1. The Doomscroll Avalanche: When the News Feed Finally Breaks You
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A tired redhead slumps over her tablet while dozens of bubbles yell about wars, inflation, climate disasters, and “the 375th wave of the thing whose name must not be spoken.” Her only thought is a tiny cobweb with a spider in it, which is exactly how your brain feels after ten minutes of headlines.
2. The Creature of the Petrifying Cocoon: Mom’s Blanket Becomes a Horror Legend
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Wrapped in a black cape with a dramatic red collar, the exhausted mom grins with tiny fangs and calls herself “the Creature of the Darkness” and “the Unbearable Horror.” The caption warns that she terrorizes the good people of Grumealand, but she clearly isn’t leaving that cozy cocoon anytime soon.
3. Leek of Darkness: The Sibling Trivia Attack Every Family Knows
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A grumpy blond boy flops over a giant yellow beanbag next to the family cat, while his sister in polka-dot pajamas looks up from her book. “Say, Leek of Darkness… do you know the pycnogonid?” she asks, and his face says he really doesn’t care about sea spiders.
4. The Birthday Poem: Sweet Card, Suspicious Smirk
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Mom beams from her teal armchair as her daughter reads from a handmade card: “Dear Mommy, for your birthday, we wrote a poem!” Her son stands beside them with a sly smirk, and you just know this poem isn’t going to be all compliments.
5. Gazing Into the Abyss: The Toddler Pasta Meltdown Every Parent Has Survived
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A red-faced toddler screams, “You cut my pasta the wrong way!” while his bearded dad stares into space beside him. The caption delivers the knockout line: “He had gazed into the abyss. The abyss was wearing Paw Patrol pajamas.”
6. Makeup Is a Social Convention: The Tiny Critic Watching Mom’s Lipstick
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Mom leans toward a round mirror, mid-lipstick, as her daughter watches from behind with a raised eyebrow and her hands clasped. “Makeup is a social convention that I don’t understand,” she announces, like a pint-sized professor grading her mother’s routine.
7. How Do Aliens Wash Themselves? The Question That Ends Every Quiet Moment
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Mom finally sits down with an open book, and her little son looks up at her with total sincerity: “Mom, how do aliens wash themselves?” Her slow, heavy-lidded side-eye says her reading time is officially over.
8. The Black Sweater: A Cat Owner’s Laundry Nightmare
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Mom proudly spreads out a black sweater so covered in gray-and-white cat hair that it looks like a small animal. “Beneath this festival of fur, there’s a perfectly black sweater,” she tells her daughter, who answers with a flat, unimpressed stare.
9. Merger and Acquisition: The Most Honest Description of New Motherhood
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A baby yanks his mom’s ponytail so hard that a red star of pain pops above her head as she tells her friend, “I didn’t become a mother.” Instead, she explains, “in a merger and acquisition, I got absorbed,” and her friend’s skeptical pout says it all.
10. Moooom? The Mom, the Book, and the Double Interruption
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Mom curls up in a teal armchair with a red book, but the gray cat has parked its fluffy rear right next to her head. Then her son leans on the armrest with a long, suspicious “Moooom?” and every parent knows that chapter is over.
11. Who’s the Most Handsome? The Cat-Mom Baby Talk We’re All Guilty Of
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Surrounded by pink hearts, the redhead leans toward a giant gray cat lounging on its cat tree and coos, “Who’s the most handsome?” The cat gives her a half-closed glare and a long “Purrrr-rr-rr,” enjoying the attention strictly on its own terms.
12. The Vacuum Cleaner Rant: A Brand-New Gadget, a Very Old Rage
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Barefoot and furious, the redhead holds her cordless vacuum up to her face and scolds it like it should feel ashamed. Her rant snowballs from “it sucks like my grandma’s knee” to “the battery dies after just two minutes” to “it doesn’t even suck!”
13. Fresh Water for the Kitties: The Cats Who Snub Their Own Bowl
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The redhead bends down with a bowl of “nice, coooold, fresh water” for her “big, fluffy kitties,” hearts floating around her words. A wide-eyed black kitten and a big gray cat stare at the bowl like it’s a trap, and every cat owner knows how this ends.
14. The Big Carry: Laundry Basket vs. Mystery Cooler
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Mom carries a full laundry basket while her small son struggles behind her with a blue cooler, brow furrowed in total determination. There’s no dialogue, just one question mark over Mom’s head, and it’s the same question every parent has asked.
15. The Stress Diagnosis: When the Doctor Blames Everything on Stress
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A young man sits on an exam table holding his own detached arm and says, “Doctor, I got up this morning and wham! My arm fell off!” The calm doctor, hands in his pockets, replies, “That’s stress! Are you feeling stressed right now?”
16. Read the Feed Before You Consume It: The Unicorn Onesie Morning
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Wearing a pink unicorn onesie with a rainbow mane and a golden horn, the redhead clutches a polka-dot mug and eyes her tablet warily. “I’m going to read my feed before I consume it…” she says, the wisest sentence ever spoken in a unicorn costume.
17. We’ll See: Mom Finally Explains the Famous Parenting Phrase
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A mom with a black bob carries her curly-haired son, who demands to know why she always says “we’ll see.” Her honest answer turns sweet: “‘No’ makes you sad right away… and ‘we’ll see’ keeps you hoping a little longer.”
18. We’re Not Taking Down the Christmas Tree: The Holiday Breakup Nobody Is Ready For
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Wrapped in tinsel with needles raining onto her pink slippers, the redhead hugs a half-bare Christmas tree and yells, “No! We’re not taking down the Christmas tree!” Her partner stands across from her holding a “Christmas Decorations” box, wearing the patient face of a man who will wait all January.
19. Santa the Economic Imperialist: A Kid With Big Opinions and a Wish List
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A bundled-up kid refuses to kiss Santa because “my aunt says you’re nothing but a filthy economic imperialist in the toy industry’s pocket!” Then, without missing a beat, the same kid adds, “But I wouldn’t mind a N*ntend* for Christmas.”
20. The Hazmat Diaper Change: Dad Suits Up for Battle
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A bearded dad stands in a full yellow hazmat suit, holding a diaper at arm’s length in thick rubber gloves. When his partner asks what he’s doing, he answers innocently, “I’m going to change the baby’s diaper!”
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