Glitterbugs

Just FYI- a couple people have contacted me assuming I thought up "Glitter is the Herpes of craft supplies" should google the phrase! I assumed that was enough of a meme these days that folks would know I was quoting and riffing on it.

I Believe the Term is "A Dreary of Goths"

Behold! The approximately eight appearances of Ghost Zack.

True Stories From the Long Tail

I've been thinking a lot lately about how people think, read and how selling can be done without being pushy or unethical. With a store that has as many designs as mine, it's easy for things to get lost. It's really hard for me to cancel a t-shirt design. Probably because I make most of them for myself!

Please indulge me in some blog posts where I talk about some of my favorite stuff that maybe you never noticed before we get too close to Christmas.

"Mom wouldn't let me get a tattoo" is probably my favorite t-shirt than nobody notices. Maybe it's a little too subtle. It's most hilarious on a person covered in ink, but equally fun to give to someone completely tattoo-less like myself. If you have a relative to get a laugh at the expense of this Christmas, may I humbly suggest this one.

Somebody once told me they think this one gets overlooked because tattooed people don't have a sense of humor. I'm not sure he ever met someone with a tattoo.

Robot Juice! Or as many people call it "the coffee with the power button thing." I wear this one almost as much as I drink coffee. I drink coffee almost as much as I breathe. You may be detecting some playful hyperbole here.

"Silent" shirts with drawings like this have taught me a strange lesson about selling stuff outside my comic audience. I don't usually give out advice on this kind of stuff, but here it is: the power of Google to help people find your t-shirts is not to be underestimated. Case in point: Bacon is a Vegetable. I like both shirts equally and they're about equally well-loved foodstuffs. But which one is the powerhouse? The searchable one.

You know how Andy's dream in the Shawshank Redemption was to escape to the beach in Mexico? Mine is to some day get a van and an espresso cart and slowwwwly travel North America making coffee for people.