Yehuda and Maya Devir are a married couple of comic artists who turned their everyday life together into the popular web comic One of Those Days. Each panel takes a tiny domestic moment, such as a clogged shower drain, a binge-watching betrayal or a cinema trip that runs long, and blows it up into a bright, exaggerated scene. This selection gathers more of those comics, followed by a few pieces that mix the drawn characters with real photographs of the couple.
Readers may already know the pair from an earlier selection of their relationship comics. Yehuda, who has been described as a Tel Aviv-based illustrator and character designer, draws the main series, and Maya, also an artist, works on it with him. The couple also run courses and talks on digital drawing and on building an audience online, so the comic is both their shared story and their working life.
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Game nights, mornings and the battle of the bathroom
Maya arrives for a football match dressed head to toe in team colours, ball in hand and face painted, then asks who she is supposed to be cheering for. Yehuda, mid-crisps, is speechless. It is a gentle joke about the partner who loves the event more than the sport.
Yehuda wrestles a tangle of long dark hair out of the shower drain as if it were a living monster, while Maya calmly towels her own hair in the background. The horror-film staging turns one of the most common shared-bathroom complaints into an action scene. Anyone who lives with someone with long hair will recognise it.
He greets her with "Good morning beautiful?" just as she sits up with wildly tangled hair and a yawn. The question mark in his speech bubble does all the work. Morning faces are a favourite theme in couple comics because they show the unfiltered side of living together.
Lying upside down on the sofa, Maya wonders aloud whether she should open an Instagram account. Yehuda chokes on his cereal as a thought bubble fills with the kind of glamorous bikini selfies he imagines she would post. The joke is about his jealousy rather than her, and it is told at his own expense.
Food, films and small betrayals
Yehuda opens the fridge and asks why the food is gone, even though it is packed with green vegetables, while Maya holds a yoga pose on the floor. The comic captures the friction when one partner starts eating healthily and the other was hoping for leftovers.
Maya proudly asks whether he likes her spaghetti, and Yehuda answers with a huge thumbs-up gesture and a forced grin while noodles dangle from his mouth. It is the loyal partner's lie about a dinner that did not quite work, drawn with plenty of sympathy for both sides.
A rare calm moment: the couple share a bubble bath, each holding a glass of red wine. Scenes like this balance the slapstick and remind readers that the series is, at heart, about affection.
The film is over, the cleaners are sweeping the aisles, and the two of them are still sitting in a cinema full of empty red seats with an Avengers popcorn bucket and Captain America shield. Waiting through the credits for an extra scene is a ritual for superhero fans, and the comic shows how long that wait can feel.
Maya changes a light bulb while sitting on Yehuda's shoulders and asks if he is okay down there; his strained "Yep" says otherwise. Everyday teamwork, with one partner doing the clever part and the other doing the heavy lifting, is a running theme in the series.
Yehuda catches Maya watching a series without him, and the screen says "To be continued". His outraged "5 episodes without me?? How could you?!" will be familiar to every couple that shares a show. Binge-watching ahead of your partner has become one of the classic modern relationship crimes.
Fear, pain and grand romantic gestures
A screaming Yehuda carries Maya over his shoulder away from someone holding medical needles, shouting "Stop this madness!!!". The roles are flipped from what a reader might expect, with the big, bearded husband being the one who cannot face the injection. It is a good example of how the series pokes fun at its own characters.
What starts as a massage turns into a wrestling move, with Maya grinning as she twists his arm and asks if he likes it. Yehuda laughs and howls at the same time. The bottle of massage oil on the bed sets up the misunderstanding.
An attempted kiss is blocked by the peaks of their baseball caps colliding. It is a small physical joke, but it captures how even romantic moments rarely go as planned.
Yehuda kneels to propose, and before he can finish "Will y...", Maya explodes with a giant "YES!" in a blast of energy straight out of an action anime. Many couples remember the proposal as the moment emotions overflowed, and the comic simply turns that up to maximum.
Close quarters: shaving, bedtime and elevators
With shaving foam on his face and a toothbrush in his mouth, Yehuda covers his eyes while Maya strokes his smooth cheek, delighted. His bubbles read "It's only for one week" and "Don't get used to it", which suggests the beard is coming back. Changes in appearance, however small, are something partners notice instantly.
A tender, intimate embrace in bed, drawn in soft lilac tones. The series does not shy away from the physical side of a relationship, and it treats it with the same warmth as the comedy.
In a crowded lift, a small green cloud labelled "Poof!" escapes, and every passenger covers their nose while Maya points straight at her husband. Whether he is guilty is left to the reader. Toilet humour is a staple of couple comics because it is the kind of thing only people who live together talk about.
Titled "The Valentine's", this piece shows Maya posing in Yehuda's oversized T-shirt in a doorway, while his very hairy leg in a sock stretches across the foreground. The cover image at the top of this page is a crop of the same comic. It plays with the idea of a seductive Valentine's pose and undercuts it immediately.
When the drawings meet the real couple
The last pieces step outside the comic and place the cartoon versions of Yehuda and Maya into real photographs of the couple. Seeing both side by side shows how much the drawings exaggerate (the beard, the hairy arms, the huge eyes) and how much they keep from real life.
The real couple and their drawn doubles share a sofa, all four apparently dozing in front of the television. It is a playful way of saying that the characters are simply the couple's own evenings drawn larger.
Out on a path in a park, the cartoon Yehuda strolls with the real Maya, while the real Yehuda gives the cartoon Maya a piggyback ride. Mixing photography and illustration in this way suits a platform like Instagram, where readers follow both the artists and their characters.
All four pile on top of one another on a lawn, laughing. The image works almost as a family portrait of the people and the characters who have grown up alongside them.
Finally, a simple selfie of Yehuda and Maya in a garden, smiling at the camera. It shows the two people behind the series, without any ink at all.
Why couple comics connect with so many readers
Part of the appeal of One of Those Days is recognition. The situations are small and specific: a fridge full of vegetables, a stolen episode, a drain clogged with hair. Readers see their own homes in them and tag their partners. Exaggeration then turns irritation into a joke that both people can laugh at together.
Another reason is that both characters get to be ridiculous. Yehuda is often the one who is scared, jealous or overdramatic, and Maya is just as often the chaos in the room. That balance keeps the comics warm rather than one-sided, and it is probably why the couple's work continues to find new readers years after these pieces were first shared.
Sources: All illustrations and photos by Yehuda and Maya Devir (One of Those Days), shared on Instagram @jude_devir.
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