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I'm trying to find the origin and the artist behind the following comic strip:

There seems to be a trend of multipane pictures depicting men shaving their beard and posting the result (or turning in to a baby for that matter):

From what I found, this imgur image is possibly the original upload. The same day it was shared to Reddit and spread on Pinterest, from where it grew further. I found articles from a few days earlier which mentioned it, but those were most likely edited in later.

I haven't found the first version yet of a person who shaved his own beard due to the comic. Chances are the first one there was 1-2 days after that one, because of Movember. Here's also a version with over 1 million likes, so that certainly counts for helping it spread.

That version doesn’t seem to actually have 1 million likes. That count is probably for that website’s Facebook page rather than that specific image. Every other image on that site has the same like count.

Well, derp.

Thanks for the correction.