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Sadie Saunders
SPILLED MILK, AND OTHER REASONS TO CRY AT WORK
Sadie Saunders is a comic artist, barista, and designer who likes telling narratives that are driven by humor and create a sense of joy and unease. Using bright colors, wiggly lines, and an abundance of jokes, Sadie creates narratives that are hilarious and strikingly relatable.
Spilled Milk, and Other Reasons to Cry at Work is a graphic memoir about finding yourself through work and the people we surround ourselves with. Sadie is 20-something-year-old who, after a long struggle with her health, finds a barista job through an old friend she has a rocky history with. Confident she won’t stay long at this job, Sadie is surprised when Village Coffeehouse turns out to be a place with a complex cast of characters, including fellow artists, difficult customers, and an arrogant boss. Sadie must navigate a mixture of mundane and absurd situations with her newfound friends who challenge her to grow into a more confident and thoughtful person. By the end of her six years at the shop, she realizes that her little community functions as a transient space between people and where they’re meant to be.
Tying together themes of community, identity, and coming of age in your twenties, Spilled Milk contains twenty-four pages of finished artwork, additional pages of thumbnails and sketches, full chapter outlines, and a completed book pitch.
Digital drawing, 9 × 6 in.
Digital drawing, 9 × 6 in.
Digital drawing, 9 × 6 in.
Digital drawing, 9 × 6 in.
Digital drawing, 9 × 6 in.