Splat CoOp

@splatspokane.org

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Spokane’s Silliest Artist Co-Op we make, lend, and sell zines. we also have a lot of opinions. 319 S Cedar St, Spokane, Washington 99201 https://splatspokane.org

Drawing of Spock from star trek on a very old zine - "third printing - May 1968"
The latest Spokane Sequential sits on a wooden stand next to the trinket exchange bowl at Splat. Splat's iconic multicolored wall is visible immediately behind it.
The logo of Identity Healthcare: A square blue background. Against it, an aurora of blue, purple, and green reveals a negative image of mountaintops. Immediately below that is the text. The word "Identity" in large lowercase letters in a stylized sans-serif font. Below it in small capital letters: "ADVANCING ALASKA'S LGBT COMMUNITY".
Several people browse the product offerings at Splat. The counter, with a yellow table cloth and merchandise, is in center frame. Customers are to the right of it, a storekeeper is ringing up a sale to the left of it.
The Splat clown logomark (purple clown head, white face, one cyan diamond shaped eye, one closed yellow eye with three lashes, magenta nose) against a black background. Below that, in a large serif font, it reads: "Ink different."
Purple background with the following text from top to bottom... (In large pink hand-drawn lettering): Bookstores Against Fascism (Below that, In a white medium courier-ish font): SAT JAN 31 (below that, in a smaller, pink, Courier): This Saturday, your local Spokane bookstores will be donating a portion of their sales to organizations who support immigrant families in our area. (Below that, in med white again, right justified): PARTICIPATING BOOKSTORES INCLUDE (Below that, small pink again, right justified): Auntie's Wishing Tree Page 42 Jupiter's Eye and more!
Three screenprinted patches are binder-clipped side-by-side to a clothes hanger. The fabric appears to be brown tweed or similar. On it is printed in large, blocky, stylized letters: "melt ICE". The outer two are positives (black lettering), the middle one is a negative (black field of ink with non-printed lettering within).
A Stack of Splat business cards sit in the foreground on a grey countertop. Next to it in a red basket is an arrangement of card game packages. The yellow label reads: "Burglar Means Me"on white text, and below that, "a card game for two players" in black.
Splat interior. Nanette Cloud is in the foreground arranging items in a basket, while Ryan Hamm and Basil Zero (Bones & Buggz) review prints.
The interior of Splat. The counter is in the foreground, covered in artists' work waiting to be cropped. In the background, product displays are slowly filling up.
A screenshot of Splat's Google maps listing
A screenshot of the Splat website with the CMYK Splat logotype at the top. Below that is the following text: "Splat is a cooperative of local artists working in DIY print media, hosted by the Blue Door Theatre in the downtown Milk Bottle. Come visit our consignment shop there at 319 S. Cedar. We open January 31!" Below that are several images of the space with its CMYK-themed paint scheme, and a few inventory items, including clothing, prints, zines, and stickers.
Grand Opening flyer for Splat; a zine and print shop collaboratively operated by local artists in Spokane. The date for the event is Jan. 31st from 12-5pm at 319 S Cedar St., Spokane, WA 99201.
A stylized clown face. Their pointy hat (complete with ball at the top), face outline, and ears are in blobby purple. Their left eye, drawn in yellow, is winking, revealing three eyelashes. Their right eye is a white circle within a blobby vertically-oriented diamond of cyan face paint against a bright white face. Their nose is a squished magenta ball. Surrounding them are blobs of purple ink: two on the right and one on the left. Below the face, within a large blob of purple, is the word "SPLAT‽" The "S" and "A" are magenta; the "P" and "T" are cyan; the "L" and "‽" are yellow.
A stylized clown, shown from the ruff up, against a white background. The ruff, pointy hat (complete with ball at the top, face outline, and ears are in blobby purple. Their left eye, drawn in yellow, is winking, revealing three eyelashes. Their right eye is a white circle within a blobby vertically-oriented diamond of cyan face paint. Their nose is a squished magenta ball. Surrounding them are blobs of purple ink: two on the right and one on the left.