TWG T-Shirts

[fuzzyoctopus]

I thought one of your favorite quotes was "Long names are like long engagements.  By the time you get to the end, you can't remember why you started."

[House of Mustard]

Wow.  Fell and I must never say anything clever.

[stacer]

I'm sure there's some great ones. I just haven't taken the time yet to look.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm not specifically searching for quotes, though that's an interesting way to raise page views. I've just been going with what I remember with my limited brain power.

which means, rather than not saying anything witty, you simply don't say anything memorable  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I know I've said memorable stuff....

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Ok, Hoddy doodians, here's what my initial research has turned up.

Many T-shirt shops for web comics use Brunetto T-Shirts, which is, incidentally, a couple bucks cheaper per shirt than Cafe press. We could do most Tees for $11 and make a $2 profit this way. As a promotional thing, we could even do them at cost and get the name out, just a thought. I'm not sure how their distribution works (some mention using Domination Distributing, which has an appropriate name for people with nicks like EUOL). I have a couple queries out to web cartoonists to see how they feel it's worked for them. I'll let you know what I learn.

The thinka bout Brunetto over Cafepress is that they don't do hats (or panties, or mugs, or mouse pads, etc, etc). I suppose we could do Brunetto for T-shirts and if we want other merchandise available we could do Cafepress. input?

[Mistress of Darkness]

I think we should try a few t-shirts first, and see what happens.

I also want a BS.com (is domain available?) shirt if there is one, because it's like going to a bookstore and having HoM sign my copy of a book he wrote. It's very cool.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

there is no brandonsanderson.com t-shirt yet.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Yes I know.

However, as I told you today, you realy should have a brandonsanderson.com shirt for people to wear.

We'll see what kind of art I get for the book and the site first.  (And see if I can use it or not.)

[Sharm]

I could possibly do the artwork, depending on what style you want.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I like Cafe Press, because we can have TWG clocks...
and messenger bags...

[Sharm]

Pft.  I can do that myself here at home.  It's nothing big.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

when we get to artwork, we're probably looking at something iconic and simple. the fewer colors (4 or less) the less we pay, generally speaking. It would be cool if those cartoons were easily made into "sprites" so we could pretend to do a "Final TWG Fantasy" story or something. Maybe beat up 8-bit Theater for Brian Clevinger's lunch money.

[Sharm]

I can do that.  Just ask MOD.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

the other reason I think Cafe Press is better (besides having more stuff) is that they offer POD printing too in addition to Data and music CD's.
So we can do a physical TWG newsletter, or print the best story going in the writers section... which gives us a lot of cred and frees us from publishers and fees...
As for the one thing at a time, we need to try the free store for a little bit...
If it turns out we make money (with cool shirts and such) then we can upgrade...