There's two new Shortpacked!-themed t-shirts in the store (in that they're about caped avengers and alien robots, respectively) and one new Dumbing of Age tee.

The first one, "Lupus Luna Trion," is something I painted up a few months ago, where there are three robots, of possible canine affiliation, howling at some unearthly planet's strange moon.  People demanded a t-shirt, but I didn't do t-shirts back then, and I didn't think a design with approximately a billion colors in it would be cost effective regardless.  But these guys I've been doing t-shirts with recently do their shirts digitally, which means there can be as many colors as you want.  And so I'm totally doing it.

The second, "Medication," is one of those things where I throw an idea on the wall and see if it sticks.  I'm still new to t-shirts, experience-wise.  And these shirts are print-to-order, so I can afford to do that.  Indulge me!

The third shirt is one that Dina wears in Dumbing of Age.  It may or may not be about boners.

I stopped being a lazy shit and put up the T-Shirt FAQ I promised long, long ago.  It is, of course, just Joel Watson's T-Shirt FAQ but with some words replaced.  I am so classy.

But hey.  It's there, and it's linked from all of the t-shirt order pages.  Huzzah?  Progress?

I like to think so.

I got two advance copies of Shortpacked! Book 4 in the mail today! Oh my lord, these are gorgeous. And theyre the thickest book Ive ever done, at 200 pages, so theyre big and thick and meaty. If you want to see more photos of the books, check out this entry from my Tumblr. This book is gonna be awesome.

Now we just wait for their countless brothers to cross the ocean by boat.

Over at Dumbing of Age, we're voting to get a Joyce statue made!  If you're interested, pop on over to PatchTogether.com and put in your vote!

I have been slow in mailing out orders to people who ordered from my store these past few weeks.  I apologize!  I need to get back in the game.  Speaking of which, the "Moving Sale" will probably end soon, what with me not moving any more!  Hop on those sales before they go away.

Preorders for the Ethan statue are over.  Those will be shipped out soon.  I didn't receive a lot of orders for this guy versus the other statues, so I'm gonna have to re-evaluate whether I should continue designing more of them.  Maybe I'll see if statues for Dumbing of Age are met with more interest?  We'll see.  Regardless, I'm super excited to receive my Ethans!

Moving has put a huge damper on getting Book 4 printed, what with my address being in flux and all.  But with things settled, that should move forward now.  I also still need to send out some of the original pages and whatnot for those who donated above-and-beyond.  Yay, moving!  You are not good for my job.

Threadsafe has posted some photos of my new t-shirts on their Facebook page.  The "Honor" shirt looks really great!  I might have to get one for myself.

A while ago I did a guest strip for Questionable Content, which turns 8 years old today!  It was a guest strip about butts. And today I have a guest strip over at Real Life, which I drew several weeks ago in anticipation for the birth of the Deans' baby girl!  It is a guest strip about horrible birth defects.

And finally (I think) in the new Transformers Collectors' Club magazine, there's a new Recordicons from me.  It stars Ravage.  And Ravage.

At ConnectiCon, Joel Watson was all "Hey, do some t-shirts." And I'm all "I can't I am small and weak."  So he says, "Yeah we know but do them anyway here's how."

So here I am doing tshirts again!  Some people are really great at designing tshirts.  I am not one of those people!  I am much better at doing only webcomics and starving.  But the way I have this set up works around that.  These shirts are made to order.  I don't gotta do a print run of 30 million, sell only two, and then live out of a cardboard box.  (Presumably the cardboard box that the shirts came in.)  I also don't have to mail them myself!  I get to keep drawing both my webcomics!  There is no downside.  You get shirts you hopefully want, and I don't die destitute on the street, pretending a cafeteria tray is a Cintiq.

And because these are made to order, that means I can be more experimental and throw up some shirts that people have asked for, but were ideas that I didn't think had mass appeal.  So right now this is a brainstorming session, where I throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

Right now, because I'm in the middle of moving, and because Joel did a comic about how my wife is unsatisfied by my small penis, I'm just gonna link you to his Sharksplode FAQ page in lieu of my own.  All of the information is the same.  It's the same t-shirt/shipping company.  When I'm done moving, I'll just plagiarize that and put it on my own site.  Because that's the kind of friend I am to Joel.  Joel's FAQ page has all sorts of information on the high quality of these shirts, the sizings, etc.  (Remember, girls sizes run a size small!  Also, I don't know what that means.  Check out the size charts.  I will be stealing those, too.)

Here's the store link! Let us do this thing, and clothe ourselves.  As time goes on, I'll let you know when I throw additional designs into the store.  I have at least two more that I'm holding back on at the moment.  They're not as strong, I feel, but that's what this experiment is for, right?  To try scary things?

It's not really so much a sale so I don't have to move as much stuff ('cuz there's no way I'm putting a serious dent in the two tons of books I have in my house) as it's a sale to help cover some of the costs of the moving!

But regardless!  SALE!

In the Shortpacked! store you'll find books for less and old Joyce and Walky! subscription strips for a good amount off.   I've chosen them because they are both things I can still find time to package/ship or email pretty easily as we start to take our house apart.  Wish me luck!  We start putting our stuff into a new place (just on the other side of town) on the 15th.

(Today my Animated toys went away in a bin.  It was sad.)

First off, I will not be attending San Diego Comic-Con this year.  I apologize!  But we're moving out of our house to a new apartment across town that same week, so also doing a convention on the other side of the country is kind of a non starter.  Some time after we move into our new apartment at the beginning of August, Shortpacked! Book 4 will arrive.   You don't want to have to move a ton of books twice, that's for sure!  So they're arriving after our move and not before.  Meaning, most importantly to us all, that they wouldn't have been there to buy at SDCC anyway.

Of course, my Blank Label Compatriots, Spike and Kel, will still be there, and will be happy to sell you their things.

(Anybody want to pick me up a 20-inch Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?)

Next, BotCon!  They've just put their schedule up, so now I have a general idea of when I will be at my table:

The Kickstarter Book 4 preorder thing clocked in at $9,404! Hot damn! Thank you, everyone, for believing in me monetarily.

As our reward, we share this photo: