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Monkey Day: MSU Art
Monkey Day had started as a joke in the year 2000, when the artist Casey Sorrow, who was a student at Michigan State University at the time, scribbled “Monkey Day” on one of his friend’s calendars, and celebrated it with other MSU art students, but it started to become infamous when another MSU art student, Eric Millikin, began including it in his artwork and comic strips, then began promoting it online with other
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