When I Relax I Feel Guilty

From 1979 to 1980, David C. Cook published this single-issue comic, written and drawn by Jim Carlson, that explores the uniquely modern tension between the need for rest and the pressure to always be productive. A thoughtful, character-driven meditation on work, leisure, and guilt, it captures a quiet moment in the era's slice-of-life comics. Carlson’s empathetic storytelling and clean art make this a small but resonant artifact of its time.