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Coping & Divorce

These are some quick and dirty sketches I did as part of a divorce comic I was working on during my own divorce. I was making light of a dark situation because it felt better to laugh about how ridiculous things that my divorced friends and I experienced than to cry about them. In the end we did both.


The original intent was that a superhero would come and save the day in each situation. This is the point where I got stuck. The comic stopped being funny to me and I abandoned the project altogether.

A comic strip of a man upset at his wife for leaving him follows her around the house yelling at her as she does laundry and cooks dinner. When she reaches the point she can't take anymore and decides to leave the house to escape the abuse, he blocks her exit and takes her car keys so that he can continue rant at her about how horrible he thinks she is.
A comic strip of a man upset at his wife for leaving him follows her around the house yelling at her as she does laundry and cooks dinner. When she reaches the point she can't take anymore and decides to leave the house to escape the abuse, he blocks her exit and takes her car keys so that he can continue rant at her about how horrible he thinks she is.
The man continues to yell at her about how horrible he thinks she is for leaving. The reasons she left: 1. Being harassed and coerced. 2. Doing 90%+ of the household chores and childrearing even though she also works full time and even makes more than he does. 3. He treats her like a slave. 4. He's verbally abusive. 5. He's emotionally abusive. 6. He's selfish, childish, unfaithful, obnoxious, fake, shallow, self-serving, self-absorbed, lazy. 7. He acts like he's the center of the world. 8. His feelings are more important than anyone else's. 9. He constantly tells her how she "should feel" instead of listening to how she actually feels. 10. Addressing issues with him never leads to improvement, things just keep getting worse. 11. He uses his wife and children as emotional punching bags. 12. Because he's always angry, 13. She wants to model healthy relationship dynamics to her children because they deserve better. 14. Because she deserves better. 15. Because he refuses to heal, refuses to change. 16. Because she's literally dying inside a little more each day she spends with him.
The man continues to yell at her about how horrible he thinks she is for leaving. The reasons she left: 1. Being harassed and coerced. 2. Doing 90%+ of the household chores and childrearing even though she also works full time and even makes more than he does. 3. He treats her like a slave. 4. He's verbally abusive. 5. He's emotionally abusive. 6. He's selfish, childish, unfaithful, obnoxious, fake, shallow, self-serving, self-absorbed, lazy. 7. He acts like he's the center of the world. 8. His feelings are more important than anyone else's. 9. He constantly tells her how she "should feel" instead of listening to how she actually feels. 10. Addressing issues with him never leads to improvement, things just keep getting worse. 11. He uses his wife and children as emotional punching bags. 12. Because he's always angry, 13. She wants to model healthy relationship dynamics to her children because they deserve better. 14. Because she deserves better. 15. Because he refuses to heal, refuses to change. 16. Because she's literally dying inside a little more each day she spends with him.

This isn't intended to be gender specific. If any part of this is your current reality, you don't have to figure everything out alone.

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