Inflation Sucks Shorts

Description: Tears of Inflation: The Crying Hundred-Dollar Founding Father Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. Benjamin Franklin, the face on the hundred dollar bill, finally breaks down: a single dollar-sign tear rolls down his cheek in this hand-engraved style portrait. It's the perfect satire for anyone feeling the squeeze of rising prices, grocery bills, rent hikes, and a paycheck that stretches less every month. Cost of living crisis humor, economic anxiety, and finance memes all collide in one weeping founding father. Bold black linework on cream tones, inspired by classic banknote engraving and vintage woodcut portraits. A conversation starter for savers, realists, and anyone who has said prices are insane.

Description: Sad Pig, Empty Pockets: Savings Wiped Out by Inflation Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. One very tired pink pig carrying the weight of an empty piggy bank. With heavy-lidded side-eye, a slumped snout, and the weary stare of someone who just saw the grocery total, this hand-painted style pig says everything about shrinking savings and rising prices. Thick black outlines and a textured gouache look give it quirky folk-art charm that beats typical cutesy animals. A deadpan gift for savers, budgeters, and anyone whose wallet has gone quiet. Perfect for pig lovers with a dark sense of humor, cost of living complainers, and fans of unimpressed animal art. Cute on the outside, financially exhausted on the inside.

Description: Bread Costs a Bag of Cash Now: The Hyperinflation Hustle Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. A scowling man in a teal suit marches grimly down the street, hauling a swollen sack so stuffed with banknotes that paper spills out the top. It's the hyperinflation image from the history books, a bag of cash to buy a loaf of bread, updated for every grocery run, gas fill-up, and rent payment today. Speckled retro editorial illustration in teal, cream, and black ink with a mid-century newspaper-cartoon feel. Dry, defiant humor for anyone whose money buys less every month, history buffs fascinated by Weimar-era economics, and the perpetually over-budget. A walking punchline for the price spiral.

Description: Carrying the Cost: A Weary Man Hauls the Weight of Every Price Hike Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. A weary man in a black suit shoulders an enormous sack stamped with a dollar sign, his tired sideways glance saying everything about the load he carries: rent, groceries, debt, and prices that never come down. Printed in gritty woodcut style with speckled black ink and warm cream tones, it feels like a vintage poster for the modern cost of living squeeze. A sharp, wry graphic for breadwinners, bag holders, small business owners, and anyone who feels every price hike on their back. Bold contrast, heavy meaning.

Description: Sitting on a Nest Egg That Buys Less Every Day Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. A man in a mustard-yellow top and burnt-orange trousers perches on an enormous golden piggy bank stamped with a dollar sign, chin raised, gazing into the distance like someone waiting for prices to come back down. It's the quiet portrait of the saver's dilemma: the nest egg is huge on paper and smaller at every checkout. Flat ochre, orange, and black ink with grainy stipple texture and clean mid-century poster lines. A wry, wistful graphic for savers, retirees, budgeters, and anyone who has asked what all this saving is actually for. Patience, but make it financial. Deadpan gift idea for the cost-of-living weary.

Description: The Face of a Shrinking Paycheck: Mint-Green Misery in Cross-Hatch Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. A gaunt, mint-green face tilts upward in pure despair, heavy brows drooping, mouth sagging, with two bold dollar signs sliding down the cheeks like tears. Rendered in dense cross-hatch and stipple engraving, it feels like a banknote portrait that finally cracked under the weight of rising prices. This is the face you make at the checkout, at the gas pump, when the rent notice arrives, or when your savings buy half what they used to. Dry, deadpan economic gloom for anyone who has done the math and wished they hadn't. Striking vintage-engraving texture and a calm mint-and-black palette.

Description: Priced Out and Pouring: Man Weeping Money Sign Tears (Dark Version) Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. A man in a suit and tie throws his head back and sobs as dollar-sign tears pour down like a flood, in bold black-and-white linocut style ink. Anyone staring at rent, groceries, gas, and bills that never stop climbing will feel this one in their wallet. Gallows humor for the bankrupt, the burned out, and the budgeting-obsessed, a crying businessman for the age of price shock and financial ruin. Gritty, high-contrast, screen-print inspired linework that reads from across the room. A cathartic, darkly funny graphic for office workers, small business owners, and everyone whose paycheck vanishes before the month does.

Description: Priced Out and Pouring: Man Weeping Money Sign Tears Tears of Inflation by Puff Sumo. A man in a suit and tie throws his head back and sobs as dollar-sign tears pour down like a flood, in bold black-and-white linocut style ink. Anyone staring at rent, groceries, gas, and bills that never stop climbing will feel this one in their wallet. Gallows humor for the bankrupt, the burned out, and the budgeting-obsessed, a crying businessman for the age of price shock and financial ruin. Gritty, high-contrast, screen-print inspired linework that reads from across the room. A cathartic, darkly funny graphic for office workers, small business owners, and everyone whose paycheck vanishes before the month does.

Description: Whoever Voted Biden Owes Me a Ton of Gas Money, period.