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You're Not a Real Parent Until...

By Jason Chatfield and Scott Dooley
Series: You're Not a Real . . .
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No parent is ever alone—especially in the bathroom. A laugh-out-loud celebration of the chaos, love, and sticky-fingered joy of parenting from New Yorker cartoonists Jason Chatfield and Scott Dooley.This collection of delightful observations from award-winning cartoonists and stand-up comedians Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield reassures every... Read More
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No parent is ever alone—especially in the bathroom. A laugh-out-loud celebration of the chaos, love, and sticky-fingered joy of parenting from New Yorker cartoonists Jason Chatfield and Scott Dooley.

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No parent is ever alone—especially in the bathroom. A laugh-out-loud celebration of the chaos, love, and sticky-fingered joy of parenting from New Yorker cartoonists Jason Chatfield and Scott Dooley.

This collection of delightful observations from award-winning cartoonists and stand-up comedians Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield reassures every parent that everything's going to be totally fine. Mostly.

From accepting spit-up as a constant companion or helping the kids move into their first apartment, this book joyfully captures what makes parenting the most rewarding, frustrating, hilarious, gross, and wouldn't-change-it-for-the-world experience.
  • Sardonic, relatable humor from veteran New Yorker cartoonists
  • A perfect baby-shower gift for new or experienced parents
  • Clean, family-friendly comedy for all ages
  • Updated edition with a new cover and new comics

If you or a loved one are one of the brave parents in the trenches, you won’t want to miss out on this book!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798881602406

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 November 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 24g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Jason Chatfield is an award-winning Cartoonist, Author & Comedian based in New York City. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, MAD Magazine, Variety, Wired, The Weekly Humorist, American Bystander, and Air Mail, among others. His art has been exhibited in France, the UK, Australia, and the US and in books published by Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, & Humorist Media. His latest book with Andrews McMeel Publishing will be released in Fall of 2026.

He has lectured on the creative process at Stanford University, The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) & The Cosmos Club in Washington DC, as well as multiple sold-out lectures with Lectures On Tap.

For 16 years, he has been an internationally syndicated comic strip cartoonist, writing and drawing the iconic 102-year-old strip, Ginger Meggs, published daily through Andrews McMeel Syndication. Chatfield is a past President of both the National Cartoonists Society (Est. 1946) and the Australian Cartoonists Association (Est. 1924) and is the Cartoon Editor for the Metropolitan Review.

His best-selling weekly newsletter New York Cartoons is one of Substack's Featured Publications for 2023 and 2024, with over 19,000+ weekly subscribers. He is also the portrait illustrator for Waking Up, the meditation app created by Sam Harris.

Scott Dooley is an Australian comedian and writer based in New York. He has toured the world as a comedian, released a critically acclaimed stand-up special, and performed alongside the world's biggest comics. Scott regularly contributes to The New Yorker, appears on television, radio and podcasts around the globe. He has written a graphic novel and once saw a fish in the wild die of natural causes. Despite all this experience this is the best bio he could come up with.

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