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Reality Bites

Arnie Fenner

Above: "We're not 'Barista Vampires'! We're Artisan Writer Vampires who currently happen to be working as baristas." "And Graphic Designer Vampires. Hi, I'm Cass." I laughed while watching the "Come Out and Play" episode of the final season of What We Do in the Shadows when—in a parody of the film The Warriors in which the vampire family is pursued by other bloodsucking clans—they encounter the "not Barista Vampires." It was funny...but also a little sobering,…

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EVERYDAY ORIGINAL

Ghost Blooms II

YESTERDAY’S POST

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a Thanksgiving story

Justin Coro Kaufman

November 14, 2024 - Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took what you could get. My friend was into concert promotion stuff in Austin, and somehow he’d gotten wrapped up with these rave promoters who needed a flyer designed, and they were willing to pay $300 dollars for it. The hitch was they wanted me to travel to San Antonio to do it, Which was unusual, but at the time, I…

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