Boing Boing t-shirts, made by GAMA-GO!

We're thrilled to introduce our new line of Boing Boing merchandise, designed by Boing Boing and made by our pals at GAMA-GO! Our plan is to create a small collection of wonderful products, from t-shirts to limited edition artwork, shiny gee-gaws to curious knicknaks. Folks from the happy mutants universe will do the designing and GAMA-GO is handling production, fulfillment, and customer service. We're also benefiting from GAMA-GO's helpful design suggestions, gentle nudges, and years of experience, to finetune our curious concepts. They're our co-conspirators in bringing Boing Boing's product pipe dreams into the physical world.

We're starting modestly, with a selection of three simple t-shirt designs:

• Jackhammer Jitters: See our Jackhammer Jill mascot as she sees you, vectorized, highly-caffeinated, and resonating with the high weirdness of the world. Mark and I came up with this art during a conference where we probably should have been paying attention to other things. But isn't that what Boing Boing is all about?

• Logorhythmic: This is the only shirt of the three that incorporates the familiar Boing Boing logo in the design. Joel said, if we're going to make a logo tee, why not go all the way?

• Get Illuminated! 20th Anniversary Edition: In 1989, the first pages of the bOING bOING print 'zine spewed forth from a copy machine. To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we've reissued the original bOING bOING t-shirt, featuring Mark's 1990 illustration of Kata Sutra, the cybervixen who whispered in our ear until Jackhammer Jill made the scene. Like the original t-shirt graphic, this one glows in the dark!

The t-shirts are available in men's and women's sizes for $24/each. If you buy two shirts, or just spend more than $25 at GAMA-GO on any of their fine products, domestic shipping is absolutely free. We hope you dig the new Boing Boing line, designed by us, made by GAMA-GO. We'll bug you from time to time with info about new products, reminders, and other details. Thank you for your support!

Boing Boing t-shirts from GAMA-GO

• [BadStoryDan]

  The Jackhammer Jill shirt could really use a real jackhammer sound effect to go along with the graphic. The white on black is especially awesome/headache inducing.

• [electrobrain]

  Ooooh, the Jackhammer Jitters shirt is badasssss. I’ll be risking getting the fanboy tag (I own and LOVE the ol’ Deathbot shirt), but I think I’m going to get one anyway.

• [Ian70]

  Just try to convince me that your readers don’t already damn well own more than enough friggin’ t-shirts.

  You will fail.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Some of us are so physically active that we tear the shoulders and armpits out of our tee shirts and need a constant supply of new ones.

• [David Pescovitz]

  Thanks, all!!! We appreciate it!

• [EH]

  please tell me the jackhammer shirt doesn’t have a URL on the back, or the sleeve, or wherever. i like to roll unnoticed.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  Speaking of Jill, the one at the bottom of the page jackhammers when you mouse over her.

• [lightbender]

  I like the shirts but the models scare me. It’s like “HEROINE JUNKIES LOVE OUR SHIRTS, GET YOURS NOW!”

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    lightbender,

    Are you hinting that they don’t come in XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL?

• [David Pescovitz]

  The Jackhammer Jitters shirt doesn’t have a logo printed anywhere on it.

  And the shirts are 100 percent cotton, made in the USA, and printed in California. No sweatshops.

  thanks!

• [13strong]

  LIGHTBENDER: If you’ve seen a heroin junkie, you know they look nothing like that.

• [Ratdog]

  Need a Boing Boing unicorn chaser shirt.

• [13strong]

  LIGHTBENDER:

  Oh, heroinE junkies…

  I’m a heroinE junkie – Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Catwoman, Nancy Drew, Tank Girl… Can’t get enough of ‘em.

• [13strong]

  @ ANTINOUS:

  “How have you missed the innumerable no-they’re-not-made-in-sweatshops discussions?”

  Must have missed those, someway somehow. Sorry!

  @ DAVID PESCOVITZ:

  Thanks David – appreciate the information. It’s good to hear you’re keeping production and printing local and labour friendly. It’s a shame, though, that you’re using regular ol’ cotton, when there are vastly more environmentally friendly, and pretty darn comfortable, alternatives available. Maybe you could ask the Gama-Go guys to look into bamboo or hemp fibres or something?

  Anyway – cheers for the information, and I hope you don’t take my eco-badgering the wrong way (I abandoned Threadless cos I just couldn’t justify it any more…!).

• [David Pescovitz]

  Yes, Unicorn Chaser shirt is definitely in the stars.

• [David Pescovitz]

  The last batch of t-shirts we did with GAMA-GO used organic cotton blank shirts. Maybe we’ll do another one of those soon! Thanks!

• [Michael Metacyclotron]

  Pffft, I bought the Boingboing hoodie when it came out for over a $100. Less than a month later it went down like $40. Great quality but man, what a pisser.

  My advice, wait a month before ordering.

• [JIMWICh]

  I still wear my old original Kata Sutra Tshirt from time to time!

  But there will likely never be a re-issue of the 2Fresh Tshirt from Beyond Cyberpunk!

• [failix]

  Perfect! I was just looking for new t-shirts! :D

• [JamesProvost]

  You going to have these at Maker Faire?

• [Bitgod]

  Always like the classic logo. I swear my old shirt was black on white though. I like the idea of the jackhammer print…but it makes my eyes hurt. :)

• [13strong]

  Couple of quick questions!

  1) What are these made of? Regular old incredibly-bad-for-the-environment cotton, or something a bit friendlier? Would be nice to see Boing Boing using something both a bit better for the environment and a bit more forward-looking – bamboo fibre maybe?

  2) Where and how are these made / printed? We talking sweatshops in Bangladesh, or sweatshops in the US? Again, would be nice if Boing Boing merch, to reflect the wonderfulness of its creators, could be as wonderful itself – let’s have some labour standards and not too many air-miles?

  Still, cool stuff – especially like the Jackhammer Jitters T. Sweet.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    13strong,

    How have you missed the innumerable no-they’re-not-made-in-sweatshops discussions?

• [Anonymous]

  I like the GamaGo stuff and actually have 3 of their hoodies. Sizes run terribly small — I’m a L in an Eddie Bauer or Gap t-shirt, with plenty of room to spare, while a Gama Go XL is uncomfortable snug. Just a warning to those of you not in possession of a model’s physique.

• [rushkoff]

  For Gopod’s sake, BRING BACK the RIOT NRRRD T-SHIRT!

• [David Pescovitz]

  JIMMWICH @19, I don’t even have one of those! :(

  And Rushkoff @20, I agree that we should revive the Riot Nrrrd and Modem Grrrl designs!!

• [David Pescovitz]

  BITGOD @3, The original BB shirt was also available in black ink on white shirt. We may do this one in that colorway too if people really want it! Thanks.

• [aelfscine]

  The new jackhammer shirt is pretty righteous, I gotta say.

  And the Get Illuminated logo looks like something you’d see in Rapture, advertising the latest plasmid. Not that that’s a bad thing! :)

• [David Carroll]

  FYI:

  I Just tried ordering a couple of shirts up here in the Great Green North. To make a long story short the Gama-Go rep who answered their phone suggested I email [e-mail] with my contact info. She will work around the fact that their website says: “Sorry, there are no available shipping methods for your location.” for a perfectly good Canadian address….

  Their 1-888 number is U.S.A. only BTW.

• [Shannon]

  These all look GREAT. I really like the classic logos, and the related look-and-feel of the site. The zine pedigree that these evoke is a valuable part of its appeal. I’m especially reminded of this today because of BBG’s new decision to go with a charmless generic tech blog theme (which made me a bit sad).

• [techbuzz]

  Wow, I just moved right next door to the Gama Go SF store this weekend. I walk by the storefront almost daily. I’ll have to go in and look around tomorrow.

• [sambeckwith]

  Does it really cost $30 to have a $24 T-shirt shipped from the USA to Canada?

• [Anonymous]

  umm…very cool, but shouldn’t the jitter on the jackhammer Jill shirt be vertical, not horizontal?