"Showroom Certified" is a zine focused around animatronics and FECs [family entertainment centers-think Chuck E Cheese]. It was the first zine that I was ever involved with, and is also the first time my art has made it to print [yippee!]. It was headed by Juno and, while it took longer to finish overall than expected, was a good project experience for me. I was a page artist and also drew a piece of promo art for the second round of social media promotion. For my art I chose to draw the characters from the obscure long-defunct Florida-based Fuzzy Wuzzy's Wizard Wonderland [but it was also known as Fuzzy Wuzzy Wizzerds]. You can find more information on that place in this video I made.

The zine is no longer available for sale. Below is the work I did for it.

drawing of Fuzzy Wuzzy Wizzerd and the unnamed dragon and pink creature animatronics in a storage room. the mask of the human character is on a shelf behind them. fuzzy wuzzy is looking down nostalgically at a photo. text reads: 'it's hard for people to remember the places they used to love as a child. it's not their fault- after a while you just stop going there, and when you get older and have brief flashes of memory about the place, you don't remember what it was called or where it was.' 'it gets harder to remember when the place was never very popular, was only in one state, and didn't last very long.' 'nobody knows where they are now. it's been 42 years. perhaps, if you did see them, they'd be unrecognizable from their former selves. or maybe they'd look about the same, just older and in need of care.' 'the animatronics seemed kind of small. only two locations ever existed and it's unknown if the second place even had a set of them (animatronics). maybe, maybe not. the owner was cheap and eventually got into legal trouble for not paying his musician right.' 'perhaps they're completely gone, long since destroyed, with no trace of them remaining. that's the worst possible ending for such characters, but unfortunately, it's among the most common, and the most likely for fuzzy wuzzy wizzerd and his friends.' 'despite all of the restaurants troubles, children still loved it. the characters were still loved, loved until the day they were sold and fell out of the public eye.' 'i wonder if they remember those good times?'

transparent png of a cartoon drawing of fuzzy wuzzy wizzerd waving and smiling. he is a black and white bear in a wizard outfit with a gold medallion on his neck.

This is what the zine + my page looks like physically.

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