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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"
"Never Reveal" tattoo08/25/09
It's been two weeks since I blogged! Where does the time go? Here's a tattoo that was inscribed on Joshua from Louisville. Thank you Joshua for the picture.
We are moving through the new Married To The Sea shirts pretty fast, and they'll be restocked in all sizes along with the Panflute & Coffee shirts in October, but if you want one sooner rather than October, now's the time to order. School is about to begin, if you're going back to college this fall, so it's a good time to stock up on shirts that let other people at your school know you're witty enough to appreciate Married To The Sea, and tasteful enough in your clothing choices to purchase some of our fine shirts. Just saying.
You should follow me on Twitter, since I update that every day, sometimes twice.
Wine ladies / Mercury (BEAT)08/12/09
Here's a photo of three ladies wearing "WINE" shirts, sent in by someone who calls themselves Paige. I have apparently been sitting on this image for a while since it seems to have been taken around Christmas.
My dad went to Wendy's the other day and said the lady there re-fried his fries to make them extra crisp. I'd never heard of that before. So if you're in Wendy's, try it. Maybe it's a universal thing, like the secret menu at Arby's. The only secret I was told about during my extremely short employment in mexican fast-food (age 16) was that if the media rushes in and starts asking you a bunch of questions, you should say "No comment. Please speak to my manager."
Beat of the Week: "Mercury." It has a weird stereo thing going on. If you like that, indulge yourself.
(MP3) Dog Traders: "Mercury"
