Sunday, September 13, 2009

Inexpensive Geek Chic! Part 1

Looking for a cool, campy (but cheap) way to spruce up your back-to-school wardrobe?
Get back to basics with our Value T-Shirt!
Enjoy a great look and fit at a reasonable price...ONLY $14.99 each!
Made of cool, midweight white 100% cotton perfect for casual wear with a sport jacket, blazer, zip hoodie, or sweater!
PLUS: they feature digitally-remastered full-color classic comic book and movie poster artwork UNAVAILABLE IN OTHER STORES!
War: Past, Present & Future Value T-Shirts
Coming soon:
Seduction of the Innocent
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
AND
Pop Art Martial Arts
Value T-Shirts!

Friday, September 11, 2009

Basil Rathbone IS Sherlock Holmes--the 12-Month Calendar!

As Sean Connery is to James Bond 007, so Rathbone is to Sherlock Holmes!

Yeah, Daniel Craig is the 007 du jour (and he is good, make no bones about it).
But, when you see the name in print or hear the theme, who do you picture?
Be honest, it's Connery...Sean Connery!

I'm looking forward to the Robert Downey jr flick, but the image that still comes to mind when "Sherlock" is uttered is the man who was the face (and distinctive voice) of the erudite, eloquent Holmes for generations...Basil Rathbone!

So celebrate Sherlock in general, and Rathbone in particular, with this new 2010 12-month calendar featuring a Baker Street dozen movie posters and lobby cards featuring Rathbone as Holmes along with Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Dennis Hoey (yeah, I thought it was "Hooey", too) as Inspector Lestrade!

"The calendar's afoot, Watson!"

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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?