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The cover of Hannah K. Lee's new Mascots zine should look familiar. If you've eaten a banana in the last 100 years or so, the friendly Chiquita banana lady with her bountiful hat should trigger at least one memory. Lee's continuation of the image, the same lady's blue legs surrounded by dropped fruit, however, may not be as familiar. In Mascots, Lee reinterprets the corporate images and brand logos we see daily, like giving Marlboro's classic Reds box playful cursive lettering, manipulating the Zig Zag Rolling Papers bearded man, and turning the Green Giant into a comic book villain. 

Hannah K. Lee contributes lettering and illustration for the likes of GQ, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's Lucky Peach. Mascots was printed on a Risograph at San Francisco's Mission Risoplex and is available in the Nothing Major shop.