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New Products: Baby Herakles, pro-vaccine shirts

Tell me you wouldn’t want to see a baby in this:

It was Sarah’s idea, as our baby is due any week now. I drew little Herakles yesterday afternoon and uploaded the image last night.

The following is only tangentially Classics-related, but we’re also big fans of science and science-based medicine (which is also the name of a great blog), and so we wanted our baby to have a pro-vaccination shirt. The Classical connection is the owl, which I drew just the other day. We’ll pretend it’s Athena’s. There are two versions, depending on your language preference:

American English

Both shirts feature the owl holding a sign which reads “Be wise!” The American version then says “Immunize!”

British English

This version instead reads “Immunise!”

Both end with the line “vaccines save lives.”