Coffeeshop Crushes #1
by Nicole Georges
If you've ever crushed out on your local barista, Coffeeshop Crushes: Tales of Love and Lust in Coffee Establishments is your new best friend! Editors Nicole J. Georges (Invincible Summer) and Jon Van Oast take you into the sexy, confusing, hilarious realm of server/customer romance (both requited and, sadly, otherwise.) With contributions from folks like Too Much Coffee Man's Shannon Wheeler, Brainfag comix dude Nate Beaty, and Constant Rider'sKate Lopresti, Coffeeshop Crushes is one big ball of sexual frustration and nerve-shattering caffeine! As raunchy and graphic as it is sweet and coy, Coffeeshop Crushes is 32 pages of sex, lies, and über-embarrassing shoot-downs. Now in its fourth printing, this comix/essay zine will keep you laughing and cringing until you're too caffeine-buzzed to think!
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"I have a copy of this adorable zine from years ago called Coffee Shop Crushes where in comic and short story form various artists and zinesters tell their stories of café love."
“There are a lot of neurotic people in the world. Most of them can only get work at coffee shops. The rest drink copious amounts of coffee. The coffee servers and the coffee drinkers try to mate, but it rarely works out. This anthropological and historic work is beautifully printed on light brown paper with dark brown ink.”
"This is a reprint (2001) of a single-issue publication, offered up by Microcosm, and it’s exactly what the title says. Mostly prose with a handful of comics. Very nicely done, beautiful cover art, and looks like 25 or so contributors. What’s best about this is the topic invites a lighthearted vulnerability you don’t often see from such a diverse group in concert very often."
This zine was ok, but "You're Too Weird" grossed me out...and no, it wasn't because the characters were gay. I'd be equally disgusted by hetero characters, so feel free to call me a prude or whatever, because I don't care. :P
cute anthology... maybe you allow me to retype Tea instead of coffee ? it would be better.
I especially love the comics where characters hang out in coffesshop for crushes, when they don't actually drink any coffee !
Here's to hoping this will restock in the near future? The description alone makes me smile, and I'd love to find a copy and read it myself.
I totally flippin' relate to this zine. There's something about an individual serving me caffeine that makes them so much more appealing. Rawr.
adorable and funny
this was really cute.
after reading this zine, i just want to go to a coffee shop everyday and fall in love
A one-off zine from 2001 reprinted in April by Microcosm Publishing with a few new additions, cataloging the sometimes awkward, sometimes painful interaction between the java we love and the dreamboats who sell it. Edited by Nicole J. Georges and Jon Van Oast, the zine is split between amusing anecdotes about secret crushes and illustrated comics that chart jittery attempts to gain the attention of beloved baristas. While a good many of the crushes remain simply that, a few gain purchase as lusty encounters of promise that end with embarrassing failures or broken hearts. As one such account concludes: "After a week and a half of coffee themed hot sex, I decided to declare my love. I was more surprised than he. He said 'You know you're cute and all, but.... You're just too weird for me.'"
Sweet & light, definately over a cup of coffee in a public restaurant. Someone must make sequels: elevator crushes, public bathroom crushes.