paletero
it’s sunny in san francisco today so the paleteros will probably be out in full force in the mission:
their popsicles are usually the severed heads of licensed characters so i made up a few of my own, but i guess they came out looking kinda gentrified:
the google image search on “paletas” always cheers me up.
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For Bicycle Times issue #11 (out on June 1st), I made a painting of Bike Basket Pies’ baker and biker, Natalie. (Some friends pointed out that I have a nifty start to a food delivery bike oeuvre, what with having illustrated the Soup Peddler a few years ago as well.) I was just gonna draw Natalie and her bike, but I know she delivers in the Mission district and thought it would be fun to make up a little storefront. I love papel picado, so I made up some bicycle ones, and a San Francisco bike rack really needs a guerilla knit cozy (knitta please!!).
here’s where I started:
You’ll notice I got a hold of one of her pies, a yummy but important step in my research.
here’s step two, with a photoshopped actual storefront temporarily standing in:
javelinas
another beard: emperor norton
hmmmm, this may be a mite difficult to turn into a gocco print. simplify, simplify!
Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, with canine companions Bummer and Lazarus.
norton was this awesome san franciscan who, during the 1800s, went a little crazy and declared himself emperor of the united states and protector of mexico. people back then were totally into it! he wore a blue suit with gold epaulets and they would salute him in the streets. he printed his own currency, which tourists would buy and use in local restaurants. he declared that calling san francisco “frisco” (“which has no linguistic or other warrant”) was a high misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $25. he also made some prescient decrees which eventually came to be: that there should be a suspension bridge built from oakland to goat island to san francisco, and that there should be a tunnel built under the bay.
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