This thesis combines graphic narrative and formal comics scholarship in book form. It explores the cultural norm of “good mother” and the role of comics as popular storytelling in shaping and expressing this norm, by situating a series of comic case studies of motherhood in conversation with the author’s own motherhood journey, told as an autobiographical graphic narrative. Ultimately, this project seeks to further broaden the range of mother icons available to those who take up or find themselves parenting as mothers and to challenge the sometimes oppressive weight that familiar images of “good” mothering can lay on their (our) shoulders.