Behold! The approximately eight appearances of Ghost Zack.

Why do I follow a few hundred people on Twitter? Intelligent background noise AKA something severely lacking when you work alone. Cats are a great audience but they lack cultural context.

Case in point: @debcha linked this blog post by Carrie Brownstein which led me to write this comic. Not a direct link, but a soup starter direct from a member of the last guitar rock band to captivate me without electronics or gimmicks.

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.

Sweet! The first load of Clicky the Pixel Squid knee socks are here! I just posted a bunch of new photos and will start shipping them Monday. I didn’t get mens socks in this load but hope to around New Year’s.

I also just got a big box of pixel ties. This is turning out to be a busy week!

I’ve been so antsy to show you guys my newest stuff! Thanks to Cyberoptix TieLab and Sock It To Me, I’ve got some really rad new autumn stuff. These brand new pixel ties and pixel socks should be shipping within two weeks.

You all know how much I love making socks, but I’m still not over how amazing these ties look in person. Hope you like ‘em! More photos to come.

Just a little preview of some pixel tie prototypes I hope to launch next week. These are all hand-printed by a genius and made of the micro-est of microfiber. More details and hopefully some sock news next week!

Just FYI- We’re going with the medium blue / pink buckets and red / gold robot ties. They look amazingly classy in person.

I can’t believe it took ten years of Halloween comics to do Ghostbusters. I am not a very nostalgic person anymore, not for the 1980s at least. But GHOSTBUSTERS!

Between the dryness of the humor, the mucus and the paranormal investigating, nothing except Chris Elliott and that one poltergeist that I defeated when I was nine had such an impact on my young life. (they’re invisible, but you can still stab them by smell)

And for those not on Twitter: “Ghostbusters was an incredibly optimistic movie. Not only is there life after death- you can BLAST IT WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.”

Fabulous pixel sock-related news has hit my inbox. Batten down your hatches!

Oh sweet, dead mother of Batman. It is almost November and Christmas is going to be beating me with an pointy stick very soon. I like to do free shipping / shirt pack sales for you guys a couple times a year, so it looks like this weekend is the only one I can do it.

There are a few new items too: Maroon Bacon shirts, Bacon hoodies and Cherry Pi hoodies are all in stock today! Shipping in the U.S.A. and Canada is free on any order over $40 – feel free to make your own combos!

psssst! Now that it is just you and me here…

I have a few really, really cool new gift items coming in the next few weeks. New socks, shirts from some of my friends, a run of custom portraits … and something you could wear to scare people at weddings.

Of course, the moment I got everything in stock I had to go mess with it.

PS: I pretty much declared email bankruptcy and gave up on my non-customer inbox today. If you want to drop me a line for any reason, odds are way better I will be able to answer now. Apologies to all the lost messages.

All “Trilogies” pre-order shirts have shipped, so I listed the few extras I had left over in case of defects. I’ve got at least one of most sizes as of this posting if you wanted to grab one and missed out. This is it on this design, though a tremor in the Force informs me a re-issue of another droid-related shirt very soon.

I think I found a few Pixel Pumpkin shirts in my Cryo-Vault. If I get a minute this week, I’ll list those as well! (Yes, I have a Cryo-Vault. I use it to store heads.)

Here we are brainstorming possible DS in-comic Halloween costume ideas. I make no guarantees and want no jokes, but your ideas for what my characters could dress up as are welcome.

The #1 on my list right now is some form of Robocop. #2 in kid slang means poop, but my second thought was Green Lanterns.