This is my illustration for the 3/1 books department story about the closing of the 9th St. Bookstore due to lack of sales. Competition from bigger bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and online sellers such as eBay and Amazon have forced local bookstores to shut down. I just wanted to show that 9th St. Bookstore was being eaten up by something. In my preliminary design, the barnes & noble guy looked more like a building like the B&N at the mall. But it evolved into a more animated human like person. I got a lot of comments saying that this reminds people of something from South Park which I must say its kind of true although I didn't refer to South Park when I was drawing this, the eyes on the cookie is actually similar to how the eyes of the characters in South Park. I had a lot of fun putting this together. I think its funny and interesting with many different elements such as the milk with the amazon icon and the scarf with the $$ signs at the end. :DI think I need to move away from cutsie illustrations next time I do illustrations!
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