Design of the Week MOD LOVE

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week, kool, retro Swinging Sixties-style pop-art comic art on a line of collectible goodies (including this mug) which would be perfect as small Valentine's Day presents for your pop-culture-obsessed Significant Other!
BTW, our "sister" RetroBlog, True Love Comics Tales, has run almost all the stories from this incredibly HTF book, as shown HERE! 

Order now, because the Day for Lovers is only a month away!

And you don't want to be caught empty-handed!

Design of the Week...REDUX! SANTA'S WORKSHOP IS A SWEATSHOP???

Normally, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

In this case, the response has been so overwhelming, we're going to keep the design up until Christmas!

(BTW, you'll note that the cover is dated January, 1939.

But it was actually on sale in November, 1938! 

Publishers used to cover-date comics and pulps two to three months ahead of the actual on-sale date to keep the books on the stands for as long as possible!)

Pick up this kool design on mugs, greeting cards, and other Yuletide collectibles NOW!

Christmas will be here before you know it!

Design of the Week! SANTA'S WORKSHOP IS A SWEATSHOP???

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week...go back 85 years ago, to November 1938 and see...when elves were part of the 99%!

(You'll note that the cover is dated January, 1939.

But it was actually on sale in November, 1938! 

Publishers used to cover-date comics and pulps two to three months ahead of the actual on-sale date to keep the books on the stands for as long as possible!)

And it looks like the elves aren't going to settle for sweatshop wages and conditions at the North Pole anymore!

Pick up this kool design on mugs, greeting cards, and other Yuletide collectibles NOW!

Christmas will be here before you know it!

Design of the Week "BAH, HUMBUG!"

For the Christmas season, we've brought back one of our most popular features: posting a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week...

Express your true feelings about the holiday season!

None of this "Happy Holidays!" or "Good will towards men!" BS!

Say what you feel!

"Bah, Humbug!"

Say it on hot cocoa mugs, ornaments, sweatshirts, hoodies (both light AND dark!), and MANY other goodies!

Give the gift that keeps on giving, even if you, personally, don't!

And "Bah, Humbug!" to all this Holiday Season!

Design of the Month "Bah, Humbug!"

Usually, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...however, we feel that this phrase is so concise, so important, that it should remain available to our audience for the entire month!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the Trumpian XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge in a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

Design of the Month "Bah, Humbug!"

Usually, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...however, we feel that this phrase is so concise, so important, that it should remain available to our audience for the entire month!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the Trumpian XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge in a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

Design of the Month "Bah, Humbug!"

Usually, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...however, we feel that this phrase is so concise, so important, that it should remain available to our audience for the entire month!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the Trumpian XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge in a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

Design of the Week Redux SPACE ACE!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...unless it sells really well, then we continue it for a second week!

This Week...

Before Don Bluth appropriated the name for his video game, there were a couple of totally different Space Aces in the Golden Age of Comics!

This particular one was a Flash Gordon-type set in the then-distant future year of 2000, complete with one-man spacecraft, moving sidewalks, flying cars, mile-high skyscrapers, human colonies on other worlds, etc.! (You remember all that stuff, don't you?)

And, of course, aliens!

LOTS of aliens!

One of the interesting things about this image is that it doesn't feature a scantily-clad woman being held captive by the tentacled alien, making it particularly age-appropriate (but still retro-kool) for under-10 year-old kids' (pre-K / 4th Grade) back-to-school stuff!

Enjoy!

Design of the Week SPACE ACE!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days!

This Week...

Before Don Bluth appropriated the name for his video game, there were a couple of totally different Space Aces in the Golden Age of Comics!

This particular one was a Flash Gordon-type set in the then-distant future year of 2000, complete with one-man spacecraft, moving sidewalks, flying cars, mile-high skyscrapers, human colonies on other worlds, etc.! (You remember all that stuff, don't you?)

And, of course, aliens!

LOTS of aliens!

One of the interesting things about this image is that it doesn't feature a scantily-clad woman being held captive by the tentacled alien, making it particularly age-appropriate (but still retro-kool) for under-10 year-old kids' (pre-K / 4th Grade) back-to-school stuff!

Enjoy!

Design of the Week Redux ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE: SEPTEMBER SQUALL

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

unless it sells exceptionally-well!

This Week...

With autumn right around the corner, it's time to wind summer up with a kool klassic romance comics cover design that exemplifies the time of year!

Available on a slew of collectibles!

FREE BONUS: You can read the actual tale behind the cover HERE!

Design of the Week ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE: SEPTEMBER SQUALL

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days!

This Week...

With autumn right around the corner, it's time to wind summer up with a kool klassic romance comics cover design that exemplifies the time of year!

Available on a slew of collectibles!

FREE BONUS: You can read the actual tale behind the cover HERE!

Design of the Week Redux 1969 WOODSTOCK CONCERT PROMO POSTER!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another...unless it sells really well!

Then we carry it over for another week!
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the greatest rock and roll concert in history, WOODSTOCK, with a kool kollectible featuring the digitally-remastered ORIGINAL promo poster that was plastered all over record stores and head shops in 1969!

Sorry, no tie-dye shirts available!

Design of the Week HOLO-MAN

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week...he's the hero of tomorrow who was created yesterday (the 1980s, to be exact) and is here today!

Read his (one and only) adventure HERE and HERE.
Then collect his limited-edition tchochkes HERE!

Design of the Week Redux RETRO SPACEMAN

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another...unless it sells really well, then we run it for a second week!

This Week:  We continue to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ACTUAL landing on the Moon with this classic 1950s comic book cover art...

...featuring a kitchy, retro-style spaceman (complete with ray gun), a leering monster, and a helpless woman ready to be rescued!

Available on a plethora of products HERE!

Design of the Week RETRO SPACEMAN

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This Week:  Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ACTUAL landing on the Moon with this classic 1950s comic book cover art...

...featuring a kitchy, retro-style spaceman (complete with ray gun), a leering monster, and a helpless woman ready to be rescued!

Available on a plethora of products HERE!

Design of the Week SPACE SANTA

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week...Space Santa (note the four arms!) listens to a cute alien child telling him what he/she/it wants for Christmas!

In the late 1950s-early 1960s we thought there was nothing science couldn't improve...including Santa Claus!

Galaxy Magazine's primary artist (both covers and interiors) in this era was Ed Emshwiller, who signed his work "Emsh".

Known for both detail and playfullness, Ed did a series of Christmas covers from 1951 to 1960 featuring a four-armed Santa in the future celebrating the Yuletide with humans and aliens alike!

Enjoy this final one in the series on mugs, t-shirts and other kool kollectibles!

Design of the EEK--WereWolf? There, wolf!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week we take a one-liner from Young Frankenstein as our headline as we celebrate the upcoming Halloween holiday!
This vintage movie poster art features a classic lycanthrope with blood dripping from his gleaming fangs!
He's available on t-shirts, messenger bags, mugs, and a whole slew of kool kollectibles, but only on-line from us, and only for one week.
So order now, before the full moon rises...

Design of the Week Redux: HALLOWEEN HOLE-IN-THE-HEAD!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another...unless it sells really well, then it goes "Redux" for one more week, like this one!
With Halloween coming, it seems only appropriate that we go with scary themes for the next few weeks.
Kicking off our compilation of creepy collectibles is this ghoulishly-graphic image from one of the types of comic books that gave Dr Fredric Wertham such fits in the 1950s!
(Wertham was the psychiatrist who claimed that horror comics caused juvenile delinquency, resulting in the demise of the genre and the near-death of the comic book industry. Despite his heroic efforts, juvenile delinquency continued to flourish!)
Yeah, it's gruesome, but in a campy, cartoonish fashion!
Isn't that exactly what you're looking for in Halloween-wear?

Design of the Week: HALLOWEEN HOLE-IN-THE-HEAD!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...
With Halloween coming, it seems only appropriate that we go with scary themes for the next few weeks.
Kicking off our compilation of creepy collectibles is this ghoulishly-graphic image from one of the types of comic books that gave Dr Fredric Wertham such fits in the 1950s!
(Wertham was the psychiatrist who claimed that horror comics caused juvenile delinquency, resulting in the demise of the genre and the near-death of the comic book industry. Despite his heroic efforts, juvenile delinquency continued to flourish!)
Yeah, it's gruesome, but in a campy, cartoonish fashion!
Isn't that exactly what you're looking for in Halloween-wear?

Design of the Week LITTLE WOMEN

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

Yeah, it's not the usual comic art we run on kool kollectibles, but Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women is a pop-culture phenomenon, still going strong 150 years later!

The trials and tribulations of Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy March are still as relevant today as they were then, as the new, updated, movie version opening this week demonstrates!

So, if you're looking for a kool Little Women kollectible for yourself or a significant other, check it out HERE!