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Introduction


To tell you the truth, One of Those Days wasn’t planned at all. It began as a few illustrations we made to show our daily lives in the style of a superhero comic. They were meant to be a personal blog, or Yehuda’s blog, to be exact, where he described what it was like to live with Maya. And, as an art director, Maya couldn’t resist overseeing character design and joined the team immediately.

We quickly realized that these comics could have power and impact when we created an illustration where we share a boiling-hot shower—perfection to Maya’s taste, while Yehuda is burning alive. That illustration went viral on social media, with millions of shares on different pages. And so we focused our energy on creating more, and One of Those Days was born.

The ability to share our private life in front of the whole world has not come easily to us. In the comics, we reveal a lot of non-photogenic moments and real struggles that we face on a daily basis, such as the difficulty we had getting pregnant. Maybe One of Those Days started from a naïve place in which we didn’t understand the exposure potential of social media. But we started to grow more comfortable with it when we saw the power it can hold and the happiness it can bring to readers.

This book is a collection of all of those relatable everyday-life moments from marriage and parenthood. We hope you can find yourself in them. 

—Maya & Yehuda Devir