Kristen Radtke has been the creative mind behind many of The Verge‘s gorgeous visuals, and in this visual essay, she tells a story of her own.
Beginning with her inner conflicts as a new mother, “How to Watch a Baby” draws (literally and figuratively) on personal experience, historical research, and reporting to evoke the specific roots of a common parental anxiety. A well-regarded graphic novelist in her own right, Radtke elevates her strong written journalism through the medium of comics. The interplay of image and idea create moments of levity, confusion, and resonance, all in the pursuit of expressing the ambiguous, complicated feeling of how to approach baby technology.
