What TShirt Contest?
I know, it’s been a REALLY long time since winners were announced, and where the hell are the shirts? Here is your answer. And they are only there because Scarface set them up for me – did I mention how awesome it is to have an assistant?
I’m going to start by selling them on CafePress and see how things go, I may eventually end up finding a place to print them so I can sell them at shows. I’ve just ordered one of each for myself so I can see how they look, but at this point you should know the final product is unseen. I can vouch for the excellence of the artwork, but not the ultimate overall shirt quality, you see what I’m saying.
Thanks again to all the entrants and winners: this was big fun.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
If I wasn’t in the middle of planning my big vacation, and spending lots of money on that, I’d sure get one.
Hooray for Scarface/assistants in general indeed!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
I finally had a chance to check my mail drop yesterday, and I had like fifty bazillion packages from eBay vendors, so when I got to the last box I had already torn off the side before I realized the return address said “Coulton” and saw the cherry red Apple-y goodness peeking out at me from under the packaging. *squees like a little girl* Thank you so much, Jonathan! The contest was a crazy blast, and winning it has meant more to me than you can imagine.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I guess I’ll find out about the shirt quality soon enough.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
The Madison show was big fun, Jonathan. I just wanted to drop by here and say you’re already featured in Dork Tower — that was posted before the show, and I’m kind of suspecting there might be more, because I talked to John Kovalic after the show, and you definitely have a new fan.
The comic in question is here: http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1374
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
*quickly orders a shirt or two*
Any decision on the monkey idea yet?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
The contest WAS fun. We just got a TAW box in the mail. My kid was thrilled to open a package from *Coulton*. She’s a huge fan!
Are the designs going to be offered on items other than just shirts?
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Nice! As soon as you verify the quality I’ll be getting the Really Quite Good one!
~Sharon the Mpls Merch Minion
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Those shirts look awesome! Is there a chance that the JoCo one might become available in ladies sizes? And in a color that’s not white?
If you’re concerned about quality, I’d try using Spread Shirt (I’ve had better luck with them than I have with Cafe Press, personally).
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
*tries not to squee like a fangirl* *fails*
May 4th, 2008 at 2:24 am
So who is this Scarface, other than just your assistant?
May 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Scarface was rescued by JoCo after being mauled by wolves on Skullcrusher Mountain. JoCo reconstructed the poor boy’s mangled body as best he could and raised him as his own son. Now, Scarface assists him by procuring animal subjects and body parts… and answering e-mails.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
As awesome as that sounds, I doubt it.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I plan on getting one of them fancy shirts to show off to my local JoCo fans.
he’s not serious…
May 4th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I’ve ordered bulk from CafePress.com before, for a Dragon Boat team here in Colorado. I picked the cheapest shirt they had, ’cause I was given very little to work with. The shirts were okay. They have better shirts, but I haven’t sampled them yet.
They can’t be beat for simplicity, though — setting up the image wasn’t too hard, and adding more products to the store for a given image is a piece of cake. You can sell coffee mugs, mousepads, the whole 9 yards. They’re also pretty good about providing bulk discounts, especially if you buy out of your own store, so if you wanted to get a big box of ‘em for one of your shows, you should be able to get ‘em fairly cheap.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:01 am
@Demetrius but Coulton himself, was rescued. From the mountains of southern Connecticut – feral mountain man who did not speak English when he was rescued, but rather a click language of his own devising…. or so I hear…….
May 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I love the T-shirts I mite order one and the fact is half price for me in £ is awosme but it takes 3weeks to get there lol But i hav eto say I dont know how much $20 is in dolalrs if you get what i mean i doubt you do lol but $23.00 For A SINGLE T-shirt is a rip off man its £11.50 in england witch is OK but there normally like …. auoh £7?
May 7th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I am ready to buy the SF video site unseen …where do I send my money for that?
May 7th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I would defenately recomend zazzle over cafepress, I have recently tried them both out, you basically get for free a better service than you pay for at cafepress. Awesome shirts!
May 9th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
w00t! My shirts arrived!
May 28th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Looking forward to these — no experience with cafepress, seems a bit more expensive than Zazzle, hope you get to keep (almost) all the money! Great designs, my wife Kate and I will have a-DOR-able matching shirts for Bay Area shows now