Sarah C. Anderson, a 24-year-old living in Brooklyn, NY, creates comics about our everyday lives. Her ongoing web-comic “Sarah's Scribbles” covers a lot of the struggles a modern woman faces, including Mother's Nature's "greatest gift" - periods.
Here at Bored Panda, where two thirds of the staff are women, we understand the struggle too well. So we collected all of Sarah's comics about periods to give you something to laugh (or cry) at during these hard days of the month. For all the guys reading this, just be sure to bring your girl mountains of chocolate and put on a romantic movie or two, we're sure they'll love you for it.
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My frist period was at age 8 - I legit thought i was dying before my mom explained to me what was happening
I just started my period today, I’m 11 years old and I am going on vacation for thanksgiving for two weeks and I have my flight tomorrow morning at 3:30 AM. Welp, this sucks.
hello... i see you're having a bad day. it would be a shame if i were too... make it worse...(giggles)
this literally happened to me yesterday. I had exams too! can never win smh
Nope - never does. I went all the way to Venice to get mine...
Load More Replies...I had to cycle to Angkor Wat in Cambodia on my friggin first day of my period. period and bikes... eughhhh... bled through my jeans
Take the pill beforehand for a few weeks and you can control when you come on
I actually think the air pressure on the plane might have something to do with it...
Load More Replies...You know, first day on an island on my Caribbean cruise trip...I got my period.
I checked into a fancy hotel room with private swimming pool in Bali, and wen to bathroom and saw the red color on my pants!!!!
Grub a tampon, as the Chinese Olympic swimmer did. (I did feel sorry for her though)
Load More Replies...Except when you're in an ad for tampons. Women who DON'T wear white will fail in them.
Load More Replies...all of it is real. What are you talking about? When I had my period I was never regular and I could get it at any time. In the middle of the night I would wake up because the cramps were so bad. Huge migraines before and during, and bad PMS. Please, it's not a question of believing or not people, these are real symptoms but some women don't have them. Happy for these women.
I just started my period today, I’m 11 years old and I am going on vacation for thanksgiving for two weeks and I have my flight tomorrow morning at 3:30 AM. Welp, this sucks. And I have actually never had a migraine, and I don’t have acne, and I eat so much greasy food, and I don’t have oily skin, it’s like I skipped puberty lol. I still look beautiful in my own eyes! :D
Greasy food doesn't cause oily skin. Also, now that you're 14, are any of these statements changed?
Load More Replies...whoops dropped a spoon better feel crippling guilt for an hour...oh you're looking at some emotional harry potter moments? better sob uncontrollably
Yep. Also cry about everything good that happened in your life
Load More Replies...I get depressed and anxious before and during my period...and then again when I'm ovulating, the burden of womenhood
Pms is definitely a thing ask my hubby he's hiding under the bed right now cause we ran out of table cream
Load More Replies...This is why you don't wear your cute stuff when the monster is en route... gotta wear those period panties.
The monster is pretty sneaky tho :( However rinsing in cold water asap saved me a lot of cute a*s underwear.
Load More Replies...I effing LOVE the fact that the uterus is drinking coffee and perusing a magazine while it waits. These are genius <3
See? This is why I never bother to buy anything remotely cute! :D I save myself and my money.
i'm 32, still no baby, my uterus gave me endometriosis, the image above describes perfectly the pain.
I can't believe that this is the first thing that actually made laugh. Look at its face I caant!
This one I don't get please someone explain. Thank you in advance.
Sarah is saying her uterus is angry because there is no baby and so it's starting to chew and bite her insides.
Load More Replies...This iis what they blame endometriosis on! You haven't had a baby so I'm going to fill your organs with endometrial cells that swell up like the lining of your uterus but when you don't conceive there's no place to shed! Good times....
I've bought more than one pregnancy test cause mother nature is bad with directions lol
Me-first period had it handled. Waited 6 months. Started gushing during PE!
Yup, just when you think you've got it figured out after months maybe years of tracking and you would bet $1M on it if you had a $1M that you'll get your period the next day. It doesn't show for like another week or for some weird reason you skip a month aaarrrgggghhhh
Mine is more like a musical. But tbh this has turned into my summer. Trying to relate to comics and memes about stuff that you don't like or hurt you.
Load More Replies...I'm 20 years past my last period! Kids, it does get better.
And when you get older, it doesn't wait four weeks. It shows up when it damn well feels like it! (Wait, I just got over you last week! SURPRISE!)
I wonder if depression might be harder for men because they don't have period / cycle. I could feel slightly better when my period was over, but my male friend seemed to be in the same low mood most of the time for months when he had depression.
Pre pubic boys are more likely to hit depression until girls hit pueberty then girls are more likely
Load More Replies...Hmm, that's strange..Because I don't eat dairy, at yet I have severe cramps and problems on my period. Dairy is not the man cause.
Load More Replies...I'm lmao. Spayed? I use the term fixed, but spayed is funnier. I got spayed in my early 30's and then menopause hit in my late 30's. When the period stops, the agony takes on a different shape...and their is NO WAY you can track any of it. Hot flashes, night sweats, cold sweats, migraines, irritability, mood swings, etc. And for me when I got "spayed" I cried a bit for the babies that were never going to be. (All those little unfertilized eggs). Now I'm in my late 40's and I don't have to deal with any of this s**t anymore. For that I am truly grateful. To all of you, hang on, there will be an end to this ride. Eventually.
Load More Replies...This is what granny panties are for not like anyone's gonna see em
Yeah but if your not expecting your period..it just happens!! God bless all those lost in action.
Load More Replies...Shall we have a moment of silence for all the cute, sexy, makes your butt look awesome panties that died in the bloodiest of massacres ....your period!
Mwahahahaha panty liners! They're good for the last days when there's almost nothing more to go. But when it happens and you're not in the toilet soon enough, no panty liner is able to resist!
I always used a tampon and a panty liner. Everyone is different. It often depends on where you are, what you're wearing, who you're with and where you're going. My daughter wears panty liners every single day....just in case. So many products to choose from. Too many....I always hated that aisle at the store. They've even come out with something called a menstrual cup, which you have to insert and remove and clean. Sounds gross to me, but each to their own. Isn't being a woman wonderful? Bahahahahahaha
Load More Replies...I can't tell if it feels like the world is burning for her, or if she wants the world to burnXD
I'm one of those ladies that have night sweats a week before my period my whole life. It's just a constant feeling of being on fire.
Lol, I feel like when I’m on my period and nobody i know, hey give me the look. When I was a kid, teenagers would stare me down and give me a exhausted angry look, now I understand and I’m only 11 and just started my first period today
So much farting. Then I do things like eat loads of eggs and beans. Totally doesn't help.
Load More Replies...yeah, i know that feeling. the boys in my class are always asking "you good?" or "what's wrong" or even "you can tell me i won't say anything" it's very sweet but very awkward😊
I can almost hear the uterus in the 3rd picture smack its lips, talk in a raspy creepy voice... I will get you, every single one of you...aaaaahaha aaaaahhhhaha
At school, teachers told us all that periods would only consist of about a dessert spoon of blood. HA! What a joke that was!
Oh yes, when I have mine, I wonder if I should collect them and use as paint... hmmm
Load More Replies...I am so happy that I don't have to deal with that evil little b***h anymore. Menopause is a different kind of trip through Hell. Then you make it through that and you HAVE to wear a pad just in case you cough or laugh too hard. God help you if you get a cold or the flu. It's like you might as well wear pads from the time you get that first period until you die. smh
I really do feel for women when they are young enough to have to go through this every month, It will soon be over then you can start taking DIXARIT twice every day till you die.
What is getting ur period like? I haven't gotten mine, yet. Not even puberty, and I'm 10.
It's different for each person, so nobody can tell you precisely. I got mine when I was 12, I think. And it was no big deal because I have three elder sisters, so I was prepared. It's just that someday you go to the bathroom to urinate, but you spot the blood stain on your underwear. Nothing, just change your underwear and wear an absorbent pad for the start. As for the rest, I think your mother, sister, aunt, or any other available woman in your family will tell you better. If not, maybe you can ask your teacher (if you have any that you feel comfortable talking with).
Load More Replies...I have heavy periods. Let's just say, if period blood could be donated to the blood bank, I could save the lives of millions!
dang.... us guys have it easy.. i guess it really is worse than getting kicked in the nuts.
What is getting ur period like? I haven't gotten mine, yet. Not even puberty, and I'm 10.
It's different for each person, so nobody can tell you precisely. I got mine when I was 12, I think. And it was no big deal because I have three elder sisters, so I was prepared. It's just that someday you go to the bathroom to urinate, but you spot the blood stain on your underwear. Nothing, just change your underwear and wear an absorbent pad for the start. As for the rest, I think your mother, sister, aunt, or any other available woman in your family will tell you better. If not, maybe you can ask your teacher (if you have any that you feel comfortable talking with).
Load More Replies...I have heavy periods. Let's just say, if period blood could be donated to the blood bank, I could save the lives of millions!
dang.... us guys have it easy.. i guess it really is worse than getting kicked in the nuts.
