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In Every Issue
Well, not every issue, but these are some of the things found repeatedly in the first 99 issues
The things listed below were plotted on a scale from "highlight" to "regrettable," "fact" to "opinion"
BABY PICS I dare you not to smile
OVERHEARD The things we said...
SPORTS Timely and easy to discuss
FIVE THINGS The random things on a contributor’s mind
INSPIRATIONS Art is in our name
FOOD We made it, tried it, ate it anyway...
NO BYLINES Picking up old issues, I have no idea who wrote what
THEMES Necessary for inspiring contributions, but sometimes kind of weak
HEADLINES Forgetting to change titles and cover lines
TYPOS Who runs spell check in InDesign? Not us...
CREDITS And our lack of rights
This shirt showed up three times in early ADW issues
THE DRAMA
Revisiting the whole series, it’s fun to see how things developed
Sometimes stories seemed to come out of nowhere—a lunchtime wedding or Research Meghan crawling on the subway tracks (go visit Issue 26 right now—her piece is amazing)—while other times the repeat appearances of certain topics are the story.
Tom shared Howling-wolf T-shirts reviews with ADW in Issue 4. Then we had to share that we might have beat New York on that story in Issue 5. Then 20 issues later, the howling-wolf T-shirt is back because we spotted it on Dwight in an episode of The Office.
Much more exciting was when Anthony killed a rat at Tom and Amy’s apartment. The story is stand alone high drama, but it was the second time ADW had a rat on the cover.
The quieter drama was when Intern Sandy went to Mexico during the H1-N1 outbreak in Issue 1. Then the office closed for deep cleaning due to H1-N1 in Issue 8—closer to the time WHO declared it a pandemic. Then Sandy makes the cover of Issue 9 for her farewell. I’m sure they’re all unrelated but it’s fun to speculate.
Check out how things unfolded by visiting issuu.com/artdepartmentweekly and feel free to share your own update for future issues by emailing us at dubbsubs@yahoo.com.
Rats made multiple appearances in ADW
