Fantastic Bonanza has three brand new t-shirts available for pre-order right now! All three are available in full size runs in both men’s and women’s styles. These t-shirts will be available for pre-order until May 24th, and will ship June 15th, at which point they will be available for normal-order. But if you pre-order yours, you get savings! Because we love you. We love you sooooooo much that you can use coupon code ‘friend’ (sans quotes) for 15% off your entire order at Fantastic Bonanza, including pre-ordered shirts! Whoa!
What could be better than Lenin holding a bottle of his own brand of ketchup, Leninz? This design was inspired by the redness (what a qualisign!) of ketchup, because, you know, red… Communism… it all makes sense! I swear. But seriously: this design has some cool details that you can only see in this detail image. You’ll be able to see them when it’s printed, too, of course.
NB: This design will undergo some very minor and probably unnoticeable (unless you have some sort of ‘photographic memory’) changes before going to print.
Obviously Lenin’s Soviet Union wouldn’t be able to tolerate the use of a capitalist condiment such as mustard! No, sir. Which is why we somehow traveled through time or something to bring you this message: ГОРЧИЦА – НЕТ! (Psst, that means ‘MUSTARD – NO!’ in Russian! Trick all your friends into believing that you know Russian by wearing this shirt!) The People are depending on you to spread this anti-mustard, pro-ketchup message, comrade.
If you’ve been reading this here blog, you’ve probably already seen Fancy Mustachio. But you probably didn’t know that it will for sure be getting printed with two specialty inks: suede ink for fuzziness and metallic ink for shininess. You can’t go wrong with this multimedia smorgasbord of sensation! Seriously, you can’t. It’s going to be amazingly sweet and I can’t wait to wear mine and rub the fuzzy suede ink kind of creepily in public.
Please visit the Fancy Mustachio page for placement mockups of the design!
Link: [Fantastic Bonanza]
Expensiveness: $20 while on pre-sale, use coupon code friend for 15% off!
Should you hurry: pre-sale ends June 1st, but coupon lasts indefinitely!
P.S. Don’t forget that all three of these designs are available in men’s S-XXL and women’s S-XL!
Check it out, Fox 25 interviewed me at ROFLCon and then put the interview up on their website! The camera dude was asking me about the shirt I was wearing, AVE Mizar.
Too bad when I mention ‘Fantastic Bonanza’ has gotten cut from it… but whatever. Check out the speech bubble from Ji Lee’s Bubble Project in the background!
‘We have talks. We just brainstorm things.’ Yesssss…
Hey everyone! As John mentioned back on Friday, Joe and I spent this weekend at ROFLCon, a.k.a. The Great Meeting of the Internet. It was a blast!
First, a word of explanation. From ROFLCon’s “About Us” sidebar:
Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a big audience, dump them in Cambridge, MA and you’ve got ROFLCon. [...] It’s a group dissection of internet culture. What makes it work, why it works, how it works. We’ll talk about where internet culture has been and where we think it’s going.
So what was Fantastic Bonanza doing there? Well, we designed the t-shirts!
In addition, the ROFLCon organizers (being the awesome folks they are) kindly offered us the opportunity to set up a booth at the convention. Of course, we jumped at the chance. Things happened, deals were made, and soon enough Joe was flying across the country to meet me in Cambridge, MA.
Here’s the breakdown:
Day 1:
The crowd at ROFLCon, as seen from the Fantastic Bonanza table
We arrived a little late on the first day, but the super-awesome Christina was there to cheerfully greet us and hand us our schwag bags—among the goodies included were a Firefox-branded apple and a 16-ounce can of Brawndo1. In an extremely well-conceived plot, I downed the Brawndo in the span of 10 minutes, thereby dumping a cool 100mg of caffeine into my normally stimulant-free circulatory system. Between the resulting jitters and my poor vantage point, I didn’t really catch most of what the opening keynote speaker was saying. I believe it had something to do with the internet.
After the talk was over, Joe and I went to Building 34 to set up shop. After a fair amount of hustle and/or bustle, we were ready to go.
Look, Joe is saying “hi!” Hi, Joe! [The table on Saturday looked way better than the haphazard spread of Friday! -Joe]
Our table was situated right next to Leslie Hall’s booth, which was kind of neat. Leslie herself was out and about for the most part, posing for pictures and whatnot (you know how it must be for Internet-Famous People); her mom had the duty of managing the booth. So we talked with Leslie’s mom for a bit, and she was extremely friendly. She even bought a shirt from us!
Before long, Joe Mathlete came on by and set up shop right next to us. He was selling off the last handful of MARMADUKE IS AN ASSHOLE shirts in the world. Yes—the whole entire world. This was extremely lucky for us, as it meant that we got to hang out with Joe Mathlete on-and-off for the next couple of hours. From this experience, I can say without equivocation that Joe Mathlete is all three kinds of awesome. Yes, all of them.
I stole this picture from the ROFLCon site because I am incredibly bad at taking pictures of my own. But see that arm on the left side of the picture? See it? That’s my arm!
Internet Famous People with Fantastic Bonanza T-Shirts after Day 1
Day 2:
On the second day, we had our table a bit more standardized than the first…
A view of our table… from the side!
At the bottom edge of the table, you can see our super-neat Conezor buttons (courtesy of the amazing Purebuttons3) and our last-minute DIY cannibalized stickers. We were situated between the ROFLCon info/schwag desk on our left, and the Weekly Dig (whose special ROFLCon issue is hilarious) crew on our right.
We spent a pretty decent chunk of Saturday chilling with Larry ‘Liontamer’ Oji and David ‘djpretzel’ Lloyd (from Overclocked Remix). I was going through Greg’s iTunes library, and he has basically a million video game music remixes from OC Remix. So if you see some sort of OC Remix/Fantastic Bonanza collab, don’t be surprised!
A camera dude from Fox 25 Boston came by and talked with me, and they posted the brief interview on their website for some reason. So that’s pretty cool! I obviously wasn’t ready to give a spiel about Fantastic Bonanza, and they cut the part where I mentioned our name:
Before his appearance on the Internet Cult Leader panel, Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics) stopped by and got a t-shirt. We heard it straight from his mouth: he doesn’t consider himself to have either a) a cult or b) a leadership position. But, in our opinion, he still has a pretty sweet webcomic! After this final panel, Jeph Jacques (of Questionable Content) swung by for his very own Fantastic Bonanza tee. He seemed pretty discombobulated… Christi described him as like ‘leading a herd of cats’. At the very end of the day, shortly before we packed everything up, Andy Ochiltree (head writer at JibJab) came by to get Octotree because his last name, Ochiltree, is so eerily similar!
So all in all, ROFLCon was good times. Pretty much a lot of the internet was there. I got live Rick Rolled… twice. Hundreds of people did a barrel roll. And Tron Guy was there. It was great.
Internet Famous People with Fantastic Bonanza T-Shirts after Day 2
1It’s got electrolyes!™ 2 Why am I mentioning these two dudes specifically? Because of foreshadowing, my friend. 3 Use coupon code HPB for 10% off at Purebuttons.
So, Greg goes to Harvard, where he was in the same class as Christina. He told her about his t-shirt company, Fantastic Bonanza. Christina is one of the organizers of ROFLCon. (She’s the second member of The Team!) And when the ROFLCon folks wanted some t-shirts, she contacted Greg, and Greg lit the Fantastic-Bonanza-Signal. And then Fantastic Bonanza designed a t-shirt for ROFLCon! Well… John did like all of the artwork, because that’s his job. But it was still a team effort!
In the grim future (2008), where all t-shirt design mockups feature models with slightly truncated heads… a Serious menace threatens to demolish all of civilization. :-[ But one small bastion of mirth stands in its way: the ROFLutionaries! :-]
Coming soon to a convention near you (if you’re near Cambridge). This t-shirt is rated FB for ‘designed by Fantastic Bonanza’, awesomeness, excitement, and robots.
So I was working on a new t-shirt design for Fantastic Bonanza, but we Bonanziers couldn’t decide which of two versions looks better! So we want your help:
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You astute readers might notice that this Fancy Mustachio bears (pun intended!) a resemblance to our Mustachio t-shirt. Well… that’s because Fancy Mustachio is an updated version of the original! The monocle will be printed with either foil or metallic inks, and the rest will be fuzzy (flock if we can swing it, otherwise suede ink). So it should be pretty excellent! I’m excited for it, at least. If you want to see it up close and personal, checkout this mockup of Fancy Mustachio on Emptees.
As Joe mentioned yesterday, now is the time for more Top Ten Lists. Specifically, it is time for a Top Ten List from me, John! There’s a disappointing consistency among most of my picks, I’m afraid. I’ll have to expand my shirtish horizons in 2008.
Every once in a while, Uneetee will catch me off guard, much to my pleasant surprise. I guess the childhood dream of starting a rock band in space hasn’t yet lost its appeal, though it’d certainly be difficult to get NASA to pay for a recording session.
You can read a li’l about this t-shirt back here. I wanted to list Keeley Carrigan’s Monster Tree, profiled here, instead, but that would be breaking the rules. Since, you know, it was pre-2007 and everything.
I really wish I could remember how I happened upon this shop, but I can’t. Its 789 might have something to do with it, though. Possibly. Like, someone else linked to it as part of a “seven ate nine” post—maybe?
Did you guys know that you can get this in Men’s Large now? You guys probably already knew that. Anyway, click here if you want to revisit Conezor’s debut.
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