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Mini-contest10/09/09
I'm having a mini contest on Twitter. Help me name the town my new (unreleased) comic mini-series takes place in, and I'll send you a free t-shirt of your choice from sharingmachine.com. It's as easy as "@drewtoothpaste Name it COOLTOWN".
More Wine Ladies10/08/09
You may recall a picture I posted a couple months ago of ladies wearing the "WINE" Toothpaste For Dinner shirt. Well, here are some more ladies, drinking wine the beverage, and wearing a multitude of Sharing Machine t-shirts, mostly green. Should we make more green shirts? Is this what you're saying?
Here is a Beat Of The Week. I haven't been posting these every week, but what are you gonna do. At least I got my Pro Tools working again, so I can continue to dig up cast-off beats out of the deep pool that is my hard drive.
(MP3) Dog Traders: "The Still"
MTTS Shirt on TV, Arby's09/11/09
The Married To The Sea "Lion" shirt was on the Travel Channel show Man Vs Food just the other day! (S02E06 if you're a TV nerd.) Here's an animated-GIF capture of the scene. Big ups, guy who wore one of our shirts on TV.
If you're interested in one of those new Natalie Dee bags, you should know that one of the three bags is already sold out. They aren't gonna be reprinted, so grab what you can before it's gone.
I blog about our merchandise a lot, but it's cause people will see the new stuff come up, figure "Eh, I'll buy that some day" and since it's all limited-edition, it goes outta print, and I get some sad email months later saying, "What happened to that one thing you were selling?" We gotta rotate stuff in and out pretty frequently, so that's what happened to it - we only printed a couple hundred and they all sold.
Not to be a downer, but I came up with a metaphor for our business paradigm last night as I was falling asleep. Imagine you open an Arby's and people really like your placemats. After word gets out, 90,000 people show up to your Arby's every day, but only 4 purchase a meal. The other 89,996 just like seeing the new placemats you put out every day.
Bags / Twitter / Beat Of The Week09/10/09
Things been busy here, but what can I say. Follow me on Twitter if you want a daily update.
Natalie just made some insane bags that are ten bucks each. If that's your thing, you should look into 'em. We printed up just over a hundred each and they're halfway gone after two days, so unfortunately, they're not gonna last thru christmas. They probably won't last thru the end of September, even.
If you have read Toothpaste For Dinner (or Married To The Sea, or Superpoop, or Natalie Dee) you might consider stopping by the store now instead of later. We're going to be discontinuing a lot of stuff through Christmas, and as much as I hate to bring this realness to the table, we need to keep the sites online. Your merchandise purchase keeps our comics updating daily, and keeps the full archive online for everyone to browse.
We generally can't afford to go to comic conventions - between booth fees, travel, and so forth, it's hard for us to take several days off making the comics to maybe-break-even. Sometimes I think we should go around to these things and see people, but then again, it looks like a bunch of webcomics people caught Swine Flu at one of those. (I wish a speedy recovery to everyone involved, by the way. The flu is horrible and I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't work for two weeks.)
Beat Of The Week: "Violet." I made seven similar beats to this one, and this is the last of the bunch, and probably the best. You have to name them unless you want all your shit called Sequence35 and Sequence36, so I saved them as different colors.
(MP3) Dog Traders: "Violet"
