Samuel Milham’s Caffeine Junkies

Pop culture characters before their morning coffee

Lord help us it’s the last day of the week, the magical Friday and we had to start early. If you also had to put in some extra hours on the last day and feel beaten up, you are not alone. And I don’t mean us, I mean two dozen other famous characters that look absolutely dreadful before having their coffee, as imagined by illustrator Sam Milham.

I look at these pictures and as a coffee lover, I totally feel the pain in those half-opened, red eyes, that feel like a billion stinging bees. And the beaten up face with messy hair. Coffee is a miracle drug indeed, and thank God it is not illegal. Only a coffee addict can understand this morning pain, which is what Sam proclaims to be. He comes from Australia and specializes in logos, animation and overall wacky style characters, that you can see more of on his Facebook and Instagram, such as Disney faces on “ice”, if you know what I mean.

The Caffeine Junkies series features characters like Papa Smurf, Bugs Bunny, Hello Kitty, Finn from Adventure Time and loads more with massively busted faces, before their morning java. The result is hilarious, but as an adult is a bit sad, given how much you can relate to this state:

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