Happy Bakery, 2023-2024

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Happy Bakery is a 52-page comic about a character who wears a smiley-face ballon head. The story unfolds how the character started wearing it, and what happens to it. 

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The book is self-published in an edition of 50; number 1-20 are in a slipcase box with paper-mache dome covers; number 21-50 are bound with flat hard covers. Pages are risograph printed in cornflower and black on Mohawk Superfine Smooth, texts are typed in Quicksilver; and books are perfect-bound with Astrobrights Blast-off Blue paper. To purchase, email me at kyungeunyou@gmail.com

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Happy Bakery was developed during the artist's Book Artist in Residence program at the Center for Book Arts, New York in 2023.

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Happy Bakery is in the collections of University of North Carolina Greensboro, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections; and Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives.

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Photo credit: Go Fukasawa