Typesetter Blues is a 3-minute animated short starring a likeable monster named Harold. In this melancholy monster love story, Harold falls for a new coworker, who unfortunately falls harder for someone else. Typesetter Blues is written in the English nonsense poetry tradition of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Ogden Nash, putting a humorous spin on realistic situations and imbuing them with emotion and energy. Also influenced by the wry tones of Robert Service and Shel Silverstein, Typesetter Blues is a carefully crafted piece, paying attention to story, image and sound. The mixed-media animation will reference the design elements of the printing process so that the setting of the print shop becomes part of the aesthetic as well as a key element of the story.