"The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic" is a comic that went viral in 2017, by Emma, a French cartoonist and computer science engineer.[1] The comic was first released as “Fallait demander”, or "You should've asked",[2] and was later published in book form by Murdoch Books (ISBN 978-1760633646, 2018) and Seven Stories Press (ISBN 978-1609809188, 2018).