Savannah Storm Illustration Savannah Storm Illustration Illustrator | Creating informative designs for heritage & non-fiction.
Savannah Storm Illustration Savannah Storm Illustration Illustrator | Creating informative designs for heritage & non-fiction.
Just a Coffee, please - ‘Just a Coffee, please’ is a risograph printed, non-fiction graphic novel, illustrating the journey that coffee takes to get to your cup. From growing, to roasting and brewing; this comic explores the hard work involved in producing coffee.
Just a Coffee, please - A graphic novel page showing illustrations of how coffee is grown, farmed and harvested. Workers on coffee plantations pick the coffee cherries from rows and rows of coffee plants.
Just a Coffee, please - A graphic novel page showing illustrations of how coffee beans are harvested and sorted. Two female coffee plantation workers sort dried raw green coffee beans.
Just a Coffee, please - A two-colour risograph printed section of a zine 'Just a Coffee, Please' showing coffee cherries growing on the plant, with large wavy green leaves.
Just a Coffee, please - A graphic novel page showing illustrations of how coffee is grown, farmed and harvested. Botanical diagrams show the coffee seeds growing into plants, bearing ripe coffee cherries.
Just a Coffee, please - A risograph printed zine, showing how to brew coffee using an espresso machine. The barista weighs the portafilter, grinds the coffee beans, tamps and the machine pours the coffee shot.
Just a Coffee, please - A graphic novel page showing illustrations of how coffee is grown, farmed and harvested. A worker on a coffee plantation picks coffee cherries.
Just a Coffee, please - ‘Just a Coffee, please’ is a risograph printed, non-fiction graphic novel, illustrating the journey that coffee takes to get to your cup. From growing, to roasting and brewing; this comic explores the hard work involved in producing coffee.
Just a Coffee, please - A graphic novel page showing illustrations of how coffee is grown, farmed and harvested. Botanical diagrams show the coffee seeds growing into plants, bearing ripe coffee cherries.
Just a Coffee, please - A comic book open on a page showing illustrations of how coffee beans are sorted, de-pulped and dried out before roasting. Coffee plantation workers spread the beans out onto long drying tables in the sun to slowly dry them out.
Just a Coffee, please - A non fiction comic page showing illustrations of how speciality coffee is grown, farmed and harvested. Coffee plantantion workers sort cherries from beans, de-pulp and dry coffee beans.
Just a Coffee, please - A comic page showing a cafe exterior and interior, with customers inside drinking coffee.
Just a Coffee, please - An illustrated infographic showing how to pour latte art into coffee.
Just a Coffee, please - An illustrated infographic showing how an espresso machine works, once the ground coffee is tamped into the portafilter and clicked into the machine.

Just a Coffee, please

Narrative

'Just a Coffee, please' is a non-fiction graphic novel, illustrating the journey that coffee takes to get to your cup. From growing coffee plants, harvesting the cherries and extracting the seeds, to roasting, releasing the aromas and flavours, to brewing the perfect cup of coffee; this comic explores the hard work involved in producing coffee from start to finish.

It is easy to feel disconnected from the origins and processes it takes to produce things we sometimes take for granted. ‘Just a Coffee, please’ aims to draw attention to the true cost of coffee.

Copies are for sale in my Etsy shop here.

If you run a coffee shop or roastery and would like to stock come copies of the comic, please get in touch! They're a perfect read alongside a cup of coffee, a useful & accessible visual aid in coffee education, and really make you appreciate the value in every sip.

Risograph printed (3 colours) by Footprint Workers Co-operative, Leeds. Photography by Jacob Lucas.

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