The Pajama Diaries is a syndicated comic strip created in 2006 by Terri Libenson, a Reuben Award-winning artist who has also done work for American Greetings. It is narrated by Jill Kaplan, a wife of a loving husband and working mom of two young girls in a Jewish family somewhere in Ohio done in real-time fashion, where the characters age with the progressive years of the series and deals with varying topics from the everyday silliness and dramas of life to social commentary. The Pajama Diaries is carried by King Features Syndicate. On December 10, 2019, Libenson announced that she would be ending the strip to focus on her career as a children's book author; the final strip was published on January 4, 2020. Main characters Jill Kaplan: The modern, multitasking mother of two teenaged daughters and wife of Rob Kaplan. She is descended from Sephardi Jews. Jill works at home as a web designer, and often has to balance her job with her home life. She is an emotional type and a bit of a self-confessed control freak, especially when it comes to her daughters. Every now and then, her teenaged subconscious voice of reason, or in certain cases, unreason, '80s Jill, appears in the bathroom mirror to voice her opinions. Often, '80s Jill brings along old friends from days gone by. She also has an older brother by five years, Brian, introduced in the November 22, 2014 strip; that lives out of state and married with two teenaged children, a son and daughter that look a bit like Jill. Rob Kaplan: Jill's easy-going, yet bluntly honest husband of Russian Jewish background, father to daughters Amy and Jess, and devoted to his family. He is a semi-independent IT contractor who works outside of home. If he has a fault, it is that he has a constant libido that sometimes Jill finds irritating. Amy Kaplan: The eldest daughter of Rob and Jill. She's currently attending a college in Waverly City and learning to navigate dorm life, exams and midnight cafeteria offerings. In the spring of 2013 she completed her bat mitzvah and had dated Lisa Day's eldest son, Danny, during their high school years. She is set on being athletic, independent and outdoing her sister, Jess. Jess Kaplan: Amy's sweet-natured bookworm and fashion-conscious younger sister by two years who is currently in high school. She also had her bat mitzvah