OXYTOCIN: A Comic by Lauren Weinstein
I must have been trippin’ on Oxytocin withdrawal when I wrote that comic. Ramona was 18 months, and suddenly I had A LITTLE time to myself to do my own work. I thought “I WAS MAKING EXCUSES FOR NOT WORKING BEFORE?” Dude, I had no time before, and there was someone attached to my boob sucking all my creative energy out (that’s only a slight exaggeration). I hereby absolve myself for not making more work for the the first 18 months of my daughter’s life. I also absolve anyone else who is in the same boat.
About the Author
Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist, artist and educator. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, the Paris Review, Nautilus, and the Guardian, among many other outlets. Since 2019 she has been the artist-in-residence at Town Clock, CDC, teaching art to the survivors that live there. Her comic “The Gift of Time” is based on that experience and originally ran on Slate.com. Her acclaimed comic Normel Person was the last weekly comic strip to run in The Village Voice. Her short work “Being an Artist and a Mother” won the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, and Carriers won the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators. Other notable works include her memoir Girl Stories, as well as Mother’s Walk, Inside Vineyland, and Goddess of War. She has also received two Ignatz Awards. Her work has been featured twice in the Best American Comics series. Now she’s working on her next graphic memoir.
Author photo (c) Lisa Whiteman
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