The Bad Job Brewery story
BAD JOB BREWERY began as Bad Job Beer - "The Beer of The Twentieth Century Work Force." It was a home brew, done in three batches back in the late '80s. We were all working on something other than our shitty, subsistence jobs. Going to school, playing in bands, trying to get a writing career started...but not doing anything really to set ourselves free in this capitalist world. So a colleague at the Loon Cafe took our ideas about a world of shitty jobs and came up with a pretty strong label for our beer batches. Some later touches were added to the art, and the logo has remained an inspiration.
Bad Job Brewery evolved from the original home brew to being a source of ongoing jokes. For example:
Bad Job Beer, The Beer of The Twenty-First Century Workforce
What do I have to do to get a Bad Job around here?
You get the idea. From the wiseass logo I graduated to horrible comics. I was lucky enough to work with three talented illustrators back in the '90s...Tom Mundahl, Ivan Daniel, and Reed Jones. Unfortunately, none were able to sustain the pace I needed to try and become a full time comic writer. So it languished, I wrote for a weekly sports page for an 18-month tenure. And I kept working on comics and other wiseass ideas, writing about politrix and culture, as well as sports. From this miasma grew the idea to fund raise for a brew pub, using publishing and t- shirt sales to build a war chest necessary to get a place open.
In an attempt to create an audience for my publishing, and becoming acquainted with many talented musicians and painters, providing galleries to artists seemed like a great way to self publish my writing, cartoons and music. The growing roster of artists would be a draw to the site, and then I could also sell the wiseass t-shirts I had been designing.
The ultimate goal is to open Bad Job Brewery to provide shelter to both Bad Job Brewery Publishing, as well as a tap house and restaurant. The publishing web site isn't step one by a long shot. The writing and the bands I've played out with were foundational. It gave me something to want to publish. The opportunity to work with talented artists to give their paintings, music, writing and graphic arts a forum for increasing exposure will over time, provide a valuable, two way service. The art will get exposure, and people will have a place to check out new, local and regional creations that might not otherwise receive proper support.
Mark Jacobs
BrauMeister
Bad Job Brewery Publishing
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