A Baby Blues Collection #12

The twelfth Baby Blues Scrapbook collection by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott captures the cheerful chaos of parenthood perfectly on its cover: Darryl strides along hauling a squirming, red-haired Zoe under one arm while Wanda carries a wriggling baby Hammie in the other direction, with a well-worn teddy bear left abandoned on the ground between them. The title *Lift and Separate* says it all — two parents, two kids, and a household running in opposite directions at once. Fans of the long-running strip will find this 2000 collection a warm, laugh-out-loud celebration of the beautiful pandemonium of family life.