Blank It

It came up over dinner again tonight. My lovely wife and I are having another baby, which is great news. The not-so-great news is we have no idea how to afford this new pumpkin. A stressful, serious matter.

Now, despite our rock n’ roll demeanors, Aric and I are not sleeping on piles of money, certainly not from Blank It. Some family, friends and the most devoted of our fans have purchased some shirts and artwork, but on the whole, we don’t push a whole lot of merch. It’s the sad reality of having a labor of love.

Well, if I can’t find a way to spend the part-time-job level of devotion I give Blank It into some form of baby-feeding fuel, it means I might need to seriously consider dropping the project sometime in the predictable future to get a side job loading boxes into a truck or something. It’s not a threat. It’s a sad potential possibility.

Anyways, there’s a way I can kinda stave off my wife’s concerns, and that’s by showing her that Blank It has a viable and invested future. You might not believe it, but when you buy our shirts, I see your name and I think to myself “This person is a real stand up lady-slash-gentleman who cares”. So if you’re the kind of person who’s always been on the fence about putting some of your own hard earned money towards our fine merchandise, get some! Or if you’re just feeling generous, we have a donation bin also.

We’re not NPR and this is not a pledge drive. It’s a comic strip that you read, that I would really like to afford to continue to draw. You guys rule.

You guys came out in force, bought shirts and art, and gave donations.  We pulled in more this last week than we have for the last half year. I didn’t mean to sound like a hurt puppy, but now you guys made us feel like kings of the internet.

There were a fair number of orders, so Aric is coming over on Friday and we’re going to pack and ship everything. So if you ordered art or merch, it’ll get in the mail by Saturday morning, and to you by early next week. Which means if you haven’t yet put in an order, do it before Friday or who knows when I’ll get the motivation to mail things again!

Thanks everybody! Enjoy your kitschy internet swag!