i just made a whole bunch of products on cafepress. i hate to encourage anyone to be materialistic, but let’s face it, most of us are. i used to be very materialistic, because i love beautiful objects, especially nice clothing. nowadays not as much, but still am. i think it’s difficult to be born north american and not be one. the trick is to not go shopping. when i do shop though, i usually go to thrift stores, and then sometimes i do buy too much. but i try to only do this 2-3 times a year.

i think a lot of these turned out pretty good, i try not to create anything i wouldn’t buy myself. i’m actually thinking of buying this mug… so if you can afford it and want to help me spend more of my time making comics, you can find hugger-mugger comicx products on these sites… if you ever buy something and think the quality is less than acceptable, please let me know. obviously i can’t buy everything and see them for myself. but there’s been no complaint so far.

cafepress
spreadshirt
mysoti
redbubble

it’s so much fun to make these products. but also very time-consuming, these sites are running pretty slowly. and it does get repetitive after a while, entering tag after tag, description after description… obviously i would like to be able to make art for a living and this seems like a good way to go about it. i did spend thirty-something years perfecting my skills and developing my own style, and i do think if you’re able to make nice art you should get paid for it. the question is always is my art nice enough to be worth anything… i don’t know that for sure, hopefully you can help me answer that question.

if you know of better sites please let me know. especially if you know of a better way of making t-shirts, i’d be interested in hearing about it.

here’s some eco-friendly products:

and spreadshirt has some nice-looking organic t-shirts. these things are not cheap, but even if i were to set my commission at 0%, it would still be not cheap.

if you ever do buy something, know that i really appreciate it… not just for the money, but for the fact that you’re allowing me to spend more time doing this. i don’t make very much profit per product but anything helps. i still rarely get paid for drawing and i wish i could.

if you show me a proof of payment, i’ll be happy to mail you a sketch of mine, as long as you pay for shipping costs (unless it’s very low), nothing super complex obviously, these take a long time to make, but not something too shitty either. i’m serious, this is my way to repay you. you can even make suggestions as to what you would like me to draw. also because it means you actually read this entire post which is kind of long.

cheers.