Barista Cat

Date: 03/31/23
Tags: #working cat , #zines

If you have been following me for a while, you may be familiar with my Waiter Cat zine. I wrote it in roughly 2016 and drew it in 2020, a time when I was not very active on social media. The zine proved to be relatively popular at Detroit ZineFest, so I have decided to expand it into a series called Working Cat. Working Cat is a series about my work history, told through the lens of a cat tolerating different jobs. In the zines Cat can be seen ignoring customers and co-workers, sleeping, and stealing from the workplace. And she doesn’t care!

I have a tenuous relationship with wage labour. The jobs I tend to be most successful at, and most comfortable doing, are jobs where I render services or goods for customers, and these jobs tend to be low paid hourly wage jobs. I have tried venturing into office jobs, lured by the promise of health insurance and paid time off, but have never found any satisfaction in them. I am still struggling to find a solution to the problem of work and pay that suits my lifestyle, and these humorous zines are a way for me to playfully contemplate work and my relationship to it.

This zine, along with Waiter Cat will be available for purchase at Halftone ZineFest in Lexington, KY on May 13th, 2023.

The Secret History / Dabble in The Open Web

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