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Post by sandjosieph on Mar 16, 2009 20:58:02 GMT
I've decided to start this thread as a way to list of various things that could be turned into merchandise...just better phrased... ... I'll take a shirt of Kat with her Mad Scientist grin and the words "FOR SCIENCE!" printed behind her. As well as a T-shirt with Shadow2 going "Squee!!!"
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Post by Meagan on Mar 16, 2009 21:34:19 GMT
I'd like a t-shirt of Mort looking totally unscary but yelling "Boo!" Or maybe a shirt with a bunch of different Mort faces. Like "The many moods of Mort."
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Post by Aricos on Mar 16, 2009 22:41:42 GMT
I'd like a Kat punching Muut (and Boxbot going 'Hellooooo!'... Although he may be so terrible, no one would buy it...)
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Post by mjh on Mar 16, 2009 22:44:24 GMT
Something along the lines of the XKCD “Stand back, I’m going to try science!” shirt, featuring Kat. A shirt based on any of the Coyote stories – Coyote creating the stars, crossing the Atlantic, meeting Reynardine, fetching the moon from the sky etc.. A shirt based on one of the “etherical Annie” drawings – Annie remote-sensing the blinker stone on the roof, for example. Obviously, a Reynardine plush toy (optionally including a matching set of lock picks ;-)
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Post by sandjosieph on Mar 16, 2009 22:58:52 GMT
I think someone had an idea with Boxbot saying "Helloooooo!" on the front and saying "awwwwwww..." on the back.
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Post by warrl on Mar 16, 2009 23:09:46 GMT
Based on what I've read on the subject from a number of other people, I'd strongly recommend that Tom does NOT get PERSONALLY involved with merchandising. It's a lot of work and time for relatively little remuneration. And at the slightest hiccup it becomes a long-term storage problem for even less remuneration. However, that wouldn't exclude him doing some drawings for some sort of fulfilment company to put on cups, shirts, cards, etc., and the company sends him a check every so often. He'd also, of course, advertise the stuff on his site. I'm pretty sure the more profitable web-comic-merchandisers mostly do this. One possible lead toward a suitable fulfilment company: planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/
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Post by mjh on Mar 17, 2009 0:05:44 GMT
TopatoCo seems to work for a lot of webcomic artists.
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Post by murgatroyd on Mar 17, 2009 0:27:47 GMT
Of all the potential T-shirt designs that have been shown/mentioned on the forum so far, the ones I would be most likely to buy are the ones with the Forest and Court symbols.
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Post by ding on Mar 17, 2009 2:28:06 GMT
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Post by Meagan on Mar 17, 2009 2:29:05 GMT
LAUGHING ON LINE, wow
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Post by kastia on Mar 17, 2009 4:26:17 GMT
HAAHAHA. FANCY TOM AND COYOTE. Someone photoshop a monicle on them pronto. Everyone knows you can't be fancy rich without one.
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Post by ferrusdominus on Mar 17, 2009 8:02:05 GMT
rayardine and coyote plushies... (the eyes have to pop out)
a white shirt one of morts signature faces on the front/back
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Post by eightyfour on Mar 17, 2009 9:06:14 GMT
We definitely need a little glow-in-the-dark Mort. Maybe a keychain or something. Or one of those rear view mirror dangly things.
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Post by mjh on Mar 17, 2009 12:50:42 GMT
We definitely need a little glow-in-the-dark Mort. Or something like this, only featuring Mort.
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Mar 17, 2009 17:12:45 GMT
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Post by fjodor on Mar 17, 2009 20:17:24 GMT
Things I'd buy.
- t-shirts with the Forest or Court sign - T-shirt with large Muut (with a line saying "it's not a good sign if you can see me") - postal cards with pictures of the power station, the forest, fairies - baseball cap with alchemy symbol (not sure which one yet) - Reynardine plushy - Mort hand puppet
And this is where I run out of money - probably
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Post by emptypiro on Mar 20, 2009 2:08:13 GMT
Id buy a t-shirt with a picture of the clown that mort scared the girl with.
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Post by phil on Mar 20, 2009 7:09:12 GMT
I'd like a t-shirt with morts "ahhhhhhh -> what." panel
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Post by Goatmon on Mar 20, 2009 8:39:45 GMT
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Post by Acherus on Mar 20, 2009 20:11:59 GMT
I would totally buy a "Born to Heckle" or :current expression: T-shirt from S1.
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Post by Dentrala on Mar 23, 2009 18:28:01 GMT
Oh man. Although I don't think it's a good idea for Tom himself to get into merchandising, (It takes a lot of time. >.<) there's just so much that could be done! -Mort shirt, either with the "HELLO HUMAN CREATURE" or the "OOOOOOOH" -Bap. (Kat punching Muut, obviously.) -Tic toc, I agree, would make an awesome shirt. -Renardine plushie. As has been stated. -Boxbot saying hellooo. -Coyote as the moon on a mural-brown shirt.
Though a mort hand puppet would be pretty awesome.
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Post by nevermore on Mar 23, 2009 18:34:55 GMT
I'd love plushies of reynardine, coyote, and maybe a tictoc. Everyone loves plushies!
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Post by Dentrala on Mar 23, 2009 19:02:33 GMT
Ysengrin plushies! Red Plushies! Shadow 2 plushi- wait, how would that work?
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Post by penguinfactory on Mar 23, 2009 20:45:38 GMT
Things I'd buy. - t-shirts with the Forest or Court sign I'd buy one of these instantly (more likely the Court symbol). I can imagine a real minimalist design- just the symbol, no text or anything- working very well. Buttons with the symbols would be good too. Or maybe a T-shirt with an image of coyote throwing the stars into the sky ala this page. Also: bookmarks. They're cheap (I imagine) to make so they could be like a test run for bigger merchandise.
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Post by sandjosieph on Mar 23, 2009 21:02:08 GMT
A Shadow2 plushie would be quite easy: just use a layer of light, or dark in Shadow2's case, and plushitize it! Easy as pie...which I always end up burning in the end...
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Post by Dentrala on Mar 23, 2009 21:48:49 GMT
A Shadow2 plushie would be quite easy: just use a layer of light, or dark in Shadow2's case, and plushitize it! Easy as pie...which I always end up burning in the end... Ah. How silly of me. I apologize for wasting precious time with all of my naive doubts. D:
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Post by King Mir on Mar 25, 2009 1:31:33 GMT
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A Shadow 2 plushy would just be a peice of cloth with a face on it.
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Post by Dentrala on Mar 25, 2009 6:38:21 GMT
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Shadow 2 wallpaper, then? Giant Shadow 2 fridge magnets? Oh, possibilities are endless! Although the forest and the court sign shirts are a pretty cool idea.
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Post by audacity on Mar 25, 2009 16:34:15 GMT
I would buy ANYTHING that looked nice! I like all the ideas involving Mort, and I agree that Coyote doing just about anything would make something nice to look at, whether on a shirt or a print. I think a shirt with mad-scientist Kat would be pretty popular! But really, who are we kidding? We really need TOM to start a thread like this, and actually be interested in getting into the world of webcomics merchandise enough to seek out suggestions from readers or our opinions on stuff he's already thought of, or we're never going to see any of this stuff (and Tom and Coyote will not get to be fancy!). I second (or third or whatever) the suggestion that Tom contact TopatoCo if he wants to get the ball rolling.
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Post by fjodor on Mar 25, 2009 19:25:34 GMT
... Giant Shadow 2 fridge magnets? I like this idea!
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