Jim Woodring T-shirt: a Boing Boing Shop exclusive!

We are excited as humanly possible to unveil the latest in Boing Boing's Artists Series of T-shirts: Jim Woodring's "It Followed Me Home." Offered in scarlet ink on a jet black T-shirt (for a "tigers' breath in a cave" effect, as Jim describes it), this is an original illustration designed exclusively for Boing Boing. It's $14.95 for men's sizes and $16.95 for women's sizes.

Don't forget about our other splendid Artists Series T-shirts (and Baby Snapsuit for pint-sized mutants):

Jim Woodring Artist Series T-Shirt: It Followed Me Home

• [royaltrux]

  Very nice but I’m afraid I’ll catch a guru meditation error if I stare at it too long.

• [lorq]

  Holy cow.  That is better than it has any right to be.

• [Susan Carley Oliver]

  What are so special about women’s sizes that they have to be 13% more expensive?

  • [neatorama]

    It’s because the base cost of the ladies fit shirt is higher. The fabric is also softer.

• [penguinchris]

  I do like this one. Black t-shirts are not my thing though, and I can see that this design really demands to be on black. I think I will take this as an opportunity, then, to remind myself that I wanted to order one of the robot ones.

  @boingboing-4ab52371762b735317125e6446a51e8f:disqus typically this comes from whoever makes the base shirts and it’s somewhat understandable; the shirts are fitted and thus are more difficult to design and to manufacture (as opposed to the more boxy men’s shirts) and when it comes to t-shirts I’ve often found that the women’s version uses fabrics with a nicer feel (I do not know if the fabrics are markedly different in the shirts that BB sells, however).

  If one does want men’s clothing that’s more fitted the price goes way up, same as with women’s stuff – even for simple stuff like t-shirts and polo shirts.

• [Thad Boyd]

  Blast!  I love Woodring and this is a great price, but I don’t wear black T-shirts.  I live in a place where it gets up to 115 degrees in the summer; colors that absorb heat are not a good thing.

• [Werther deGoethe]

  Call me a grumpy old-fashioned graphic artist, (nee typesetter), but I could never wear this because of the kerning of the lettering.

  Too bad, because everything else about the shirt  is great.

• [joeposts]

  Does the baby snapsuit come in XL adult size? Looks comfy.

• [jeligula]

  Ooooooh.  Must.  Have.  Although I must say that Werther has a valid point.   That is pretty sloppy in an otherwise cool design.

• [sdaris]

  It’s surprising that BoingBoing allowed someone inexperienced with typesetting (and typography) to produce this for them. Regardless, any text would ruin it anyway. If it were this I’d buy it (screenshot):

  • [sean]

    My sentiments exactly. I love Jim Woodring but that lettering has to go.

• [sean]

  Please do it in any color except black and without the ugly type and I’ll buy TWO. One to wear, and one to keep in mint condition. Because I’m a collector and that’s the kind of things we collectors do.