Should We Do Forum T-Shirt?

[Arthur]

[MrKittyCatMeowFace]

Damn! makes me want to put on nikes and drink cyanide. XD

[lew]

I got this place... down in Guyana. You'll love it. Call your congressman.

[flyweightnate]

For a real MCB joke, we'd have the back of the shirt be the view from behind... and the expert would be sitting on a pile of brass and Micromags.

The JonM version sounds perfect though.

[JonM]

The version I created is based on the cleaned up one Doc made (as noted in the credit below).

[rawbutter]

I love this version, but I'm wondering how the colorful Hawaiian shirt would show up on a t-shirt. Especially a non-white T-shirt.

[armageddonsportz]

Say on black it probably would not be as vibrant. I have found from having had numerous shirts (about 80+ now) printed over the years that color perception changes alot depending on what it is next to or on. One way around it would be to keep all the inside area white and even put a matching white border around the existing black border. That way any color of shirt it will pop and not loose the look/feel of the subject matter.
Love this rendition though nice work.

[lew]

I'll level with ya: Unless the shirt is ultra breathable (yeah, I'll rock the mesh Euro-style), I won't buy it.

However, make up a shitload of stickers, and I'll buy a stack.

[mikew]

I like using the combat manual cartoon on a shirt.

But if we really want to show the real MCB what about this

[Alexndl]

Should ot have Velcor somewhere?

And what about May 18?

[flyweightnate]

I forget - what's May 18? Chad Thompson Day?

[Flounder]

If somebody wants this to happen they just need to do it. Every time this comes up there is lots of discussion but nothing ever goes forward.

[armageddonsportz]

I just happened to have recently created a teespring account that I am prepping to put my stuff on. If someone wants to get me a final vector version I can put it on and set up a private sale for us MCB members. Set it up for at cost.

[rawbutter]

Armageddon... Could we order shirts on teespring on an individual basis? Or would we need to do a group order

[ElliotB]

MCB has been my saving grace since lockdown. Ive been dabbling with designs in my head and here are two designs I made for no real particular reason other than just needing to get my creative juices flowing... I have other designs in my head for the "whisperers/whispered" , "collectors", and "Tinkerer" with D&D type creatures as their mascots. But yeah.. I'd be down to help with designs and what not.

[MAr]

those are so dope I gave you 999 Reputations.

[rawbutter]

That first one is awesome!

[Chuck E Ducky]

Splatmaster one is Dope!

[Rainmaker]

Those would be some sweet tattoos man.

[spikeball]

I'll take a splatmaster patch!

[Nish]

MCB has been my saving grace since lockdown. Ive been dabbling with designs in my head and here are two designs I made for no real particular reason other than just needing to get my creative juices flowing... I have other designs in my head for the "whisperers/whispered" , "collectors", and "Tinkerer" with D&D type creatures as their mascots. But yeah.. I'd be down to help with designs and what not.

Love the Splatmaster one.

[mlzplayer111]

last time if i remember correctly someone offered to produce these and it went no where, id be down to buy one

[rawbutter]

last time if i remember correctly someone offered to produce these and it went no where, id be down to buy one

This is why I think that going the on-demand route is better than doing a group order. There are places that do this, like Printful. We design a shirt and set up everything with the website, and we post a link here (or somewhere on the site). Then everyone who wants one goes to the website themselves and orders it. The t-shirt is sent directly to them. No middle man. The shirts would be a little more expensive this way, but there would be no minimum order. No pre-orders. And no time limits.

Heck, I'd be willing to set it up myself. It doesn't seem that hard or time consuming. But I would need a high-def version of the image we want to use. And all the white bits needs to be transparent so it can be printed on non-white shirts.

I'd personally be down for a Combat Manual shirt or a shirt with that Splatmaster design that Elliot did. I'm only sad that Elliot wouldn't get any proceeds from the sale. Artists should be paid for their work.

[rawbutter]

Elliot,

It looks to me like if YOU set up the T-shirt on Printful with your Splatmaster design, you can actually sell the T-shirt for more than the cost of production. So if the shirt costs $12 to produce, but you set the price at $17, then they send you $5 for each shirt that we buy from the site.

It does seem, however, that you might need an online store first to link to the shirt design. There's probably a way around that, but you'll have to call or email with them.

Hmm......Maybe MCB can build a store on this site somewhere?

[ElliotB]

Hey rawbutter,

I was looking into this same thing. Big Cartel seems to be a very plausible solution as an e-commerce site, as it is very compatible with Printful. I'm delving deeper into it all, and trying to find out how the shipping fees are managed.

[ChoSanJuan]

Looks like Squareup (Square) has a good integration with Printful. Easy setup to have a link represented on here somewhere. I'm also reading that it has direct PayPal integrations so since MCB already takes membership dues via PP, why not add that into the mix?

[Chuck E Ducky]

I would buy a splatmaster design and the combat manual one. I agree it would be better if we could just order as we want them. Have them shipped separate as we order. Winters coming I would even buy a hoodie.

[mikew]

Ok, I've located what I think is the original "Combat Manual" cartoon, scaled it up and tweaked it for white on black printing.

It would be simple to export a hi res file with transparency for printing.

What do you think?

[rawbutter]

Personally I think it looks a little better with black font on a light background, like grey. But if everyone prefers white on black, I would still get one.

Thanks for doing the work! I really like the addition of the website tag at the bottom.

[Rusty Brass]

Where'd you find that? Old APG issue? Interwebz?

[mikew]

I found it on the old Carter Brown forum and downloaded it some years back.

[armageddonsportz]

Sorry Rawbutter didn’t see your reply, probably downside to the comments or maybe I missed setting up notifications on my side. Anyhow yeah Teespring you wouldn’t need an outside “store front” and you can offer a bunch of different print options as far as color and product. Super simple to set up. Printful on the other hand you need a host sight like Etsy etc to serve as your “store front”. Also you are correct, it would be on demand so it’s all on your time as far as when you want to purchase something etc. I am willing to help out wherever I can. Let me know and ElliotB that is some sick work yo. I would love to purchase something with that splat master design.