Kyung Eun You
Woodside, NY
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IG: kyungeunyou

Happy Bakery
2024
Risograph, paper mache cover, perfect binding, slip case
9″ x 9″ x 4″

Artist Statement

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

It is an edition of 50: number 1-20 are in a slipcase box with paper mache dome covers; and number 21-50 are bound with flat hardcovers. Pages were risograph printed on Mohawk Superfine Smooth in two colors, cornflower and black, and cut to a circle shape. Books are perfect bound with Neenah Astrobrights Blast-off Blue.

The book was developed during the artist’s Book Artist in Residence program at the Center for Book Arts in New York in 2023.