Not enough time for shirts right now. It's been on the backburner for a while. I want a Rubberslug shirt at least as much as everyone else -- and I'm sure I could sell a dozen to holiday shoppers -- but I'm spread really thin right now.
I've got some neat ideas for shirts. I'll try really, really hard to have them ready in time for con season so I can have something to hand out if I make it to cons this summer. Right now the plan is for a few kinds:
1) logo shirts, for when you want people to think you're listening to a really cool band or something. (once we finalize the logo)
2) quotes/zingers. funny, non-dorky anime jokes. stuff that says you're an anime fan, but not a smacktard.
3) cel collecting insider-type things. shirts with non-final authentic production materials that allude to a particular character, like a storyboard panel with a character in a trademark pose. Designed to be a geek challenge of sorts, like having a shirt with a differential equation or scrambled words on it.
No shirts that make people look like dorks. I mean, I like Ghost in the Shell too, but I wouldn't wear a shirt featuring a half-naked Kusanagi on it. Think about someone walking around wearing a Spiderman shirt. Good comic, good movies, bad taste in clothes.
I agree with a previous poster on the subject that the best shirts are conversation starters.
There is, however, enough time to draw a quick SD lobster machine. Didn't want this to be a total let down.
http://www.rubberslug.com/misc/sd_lobster.jpg
(Eep. I told you I draw all crooked when I draw fast.)
A cleaned up, properly drawn, and colored version of that would actually look pretty funny on a shirt, now that I think about it.
