
It's getting harder every day, but we do our best.
Backstory: I used to work for a regional drug store chain, about a billion years ago. For a while, I was given the job of making signage for all the stores in the chain featuring this little tiger dude.
Last summer, I went back to visit the place I worked (I'm not in the same state anymore), and an old co-worker friend told me the new manager of the store had *just* pulled the last sign down that I made the week prior to my visit after almost two decades. My co-worker told me he was pretty bummed, since seeing it every day gave him a little dose of positivity. If you have ever worked retail, I am certain you understand just how important positivity can be.
So, I made him this little sign to hang in his workspace, as it meant a lot to me that he stilled cared.
And that is the backstory of the positive tiger.
Backstory: I used to work for a regional drug store chain, about a billion years ago. For a while, I was given the job of making signage for all the stores in the chain featuring this little tiger dude.
Last summer, I went back to visit the place I worked (I'm not in the same state anymore), and an old co-worker friend told me the new manager of the store had *just* pulled the last sign down that I made the week prior to my visit after almost two decades. My co-worker told me he was pretty bummed, since seeing it every day gave him a little dose of positivity. If you have ever worked retail, I am certain you understand just how important positivity can be.
So, I made him this little sign to hang in his workspace, as it meant a lot to me that he stilled cared.
And that is the backstory of the positive tiger.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Tiger
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And that is a beautiful story! That’s incredible to think your art was posted at that drugstore for 20 years…there are young adults in that neighborhood who grew up with your character encouraging them. It is a privilege to know your artwork as an adult. I can only imagine the joy to have it as part of one’s youth, alongside favorite cartoons and comics that still warm me all these years later.
Thank you for sharing this story with your always wonderful art. ❤️
Thank you for sharing this story with your always wonderful art. ❤️
There's a Marc's in my area that used to have hand-drawn signs probably very much like the ones you made. They looked like they were inked with Sharpies and colored with those blendable art markers. It's definitely not the sort of thing I could imagine any chain store doing nowadays, in this age of ultra-sterile design. Nor do I imagine they'd have an easy time finding anyone artistically inclined who's willing to sell out to "the man" when their work is worth so much more on the internet. (Maybe these two cultural shifts are related, come to think.)
I worked for one of Marc's much smaller competitors, Drug Mart. In the beginning, my manager let me do marker signs similar to those, but not as large. Lots of sharpies and Crayola markers were used! I got to draw all kinds of weird things. Eventually the owner of the chain saw them, and I was given the job of drawing things digitally to send out to all the stores. It sounds much better than it actually was. <:)
I do not! It is a part of my life that I have tried to not think about too much, but fate brought me back to the store, where I ran into my friend.
The sign that was left was quite old, pre 2008 at best. It was likely falling apart, and was just something about where to pick up prescriptions or something.
If you look at this old youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-_tN8ZDErk and pause the 1st frame, there is a sign on the right that says "gift cards" The orange blur on it is the little tiger guy, opening a present. As far as I know, that's all there is!
The sign that was left was quite old, pre 2008 at best. It was likely falling apart, and was just something about where to pick up prescriptions or something.
If you look at this old youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-_tN8ZDErk and pause the 1st frame, there is a sign on the right that says "gift cards" The orange blur on it is the little tiger guy, opening a present. As far as I know, that's all there is!
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