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Maddy Buck

Maddy Buck is a comics artist based in Minneapolis who specializes in illustrated explanations of tech, law, and all things complex.

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Illustrated Newsletter-Maddy Not Mommy

Excerpts from Maddy’s illustrated newsletter, Maddy Not Mommy. 2023. Maddy maintains a newsletter on Substack, where she explains life as a new parent, from her perspective: one who is reluctant to be called “parent” or “mama.” The illustrations often include a lot of lettering, and are done digitally. Illustrations from this newsletter have been used to create “New Baby” greeting cards.

Drawing of anxious woman surrounding by thought bubbles. Inside the thought bubbles are all the things that she is forgetting in the postpartum period (turning off the pump, that technical thing from work, etc.)
Image of mother doing a plank and baby laying on stomach doing tummy time. Above mother and baby it says “Morning workout.”
Illustration of mom and dad and dog, dad holding baby on his front in a carrier, walking on a path. Further down the path there are germs in bright colors taking over the page. On the path there is a sign pointing towards the germs that says “Day ca
This is a photo of a greeting card. On the card is an illustration of two baby arms with wrist where you can see the creases. Around the illustration, it says, “Wrist creases are in your future.” The drawing is black ink with the arms of the baby in
This drawing says “Crying Baby” at the top left right next to a simple drawing of a crying baby. To the left of the baby is the word WAAAAAAAAh drawn in a large circle. Around the circle we see the words “Feed baby” “change baby,” “nap baby,” “baby
This is a photo of a hand holding a card that is folded and has two illustrations. The top one is of a graph that shows the level of attention on mother changing as baby is born and time goes into postpartum phase. The bottom illustration shows a wo
This is a photo of a folded piece of paper, where we see two illustrations. On the top is an illustration of a baby sitting up, against a baby pillow, saying “AEIAAAH!” The second illustration shows a baby bassinet, where all you can see are the lit
This is a photo of a card where the illustration says “Congratulations” and the drawing is of a tiny baby with a huge grin, and their arms out wide, in excitement.
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This is a photo of a card where there are two illustrations. On the top is an illustration of three babies wearing the same outfit. But the baby is progressively bigger. Underneath, it says “fast fashion.” On the bottom is an illustration of a woman

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