http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog News posts and links for dieselsweeties.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:20:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Behold! The approximately eight appearances of Ghost Zack. http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=655 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 ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=652 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 ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=646 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. ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=639 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, ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=631 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 ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=628 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 ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=624 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 ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=618 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 ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=614 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 ... http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=611