For those few who are wondering — no, this isn’t an oblique way to announce tee shirt sales. A wise man with piercings in his ear and severe height once told me that you shouldn’t even think about tee shirt sales until you had four or five thousand readers. Now, I have no complaints on how we’re doing, readership wise. In fact, I get up most mornings and give praises to the Gods of Fortune that they’ve elected to smile on Greg and I in that regard. But we’re nowhere near four or five thousand readers, and I doubt we will be for a while.

We could do Cafepress, of course, but there’s generally some… dissatisfaction, when it comes to the tee shirts. I once did a print of the only piece of artwork I’ve ever done that I liked on Cafepress, and the blacks came out brown, which had me ‘concerned.’

On the other hand, Cafepress does dye sublimation into porcelain very well. I got a mug made for my old Annotations website, and also got a Slugs! mug back in the brief time they existed. I liked them. I liked them a lot. So, I’m thinking a mug store, because it would cost neither Greg nor I anything to set up, and close to four people would get mugs. (Admittedly, three of those people being myself, Wednesday, and my father. The fourth is nebulous, though I figure it’s even odds it would be Greg.)

On the other hand — like I said, it’s free. How do you argue with that?

A “Prostitute for Shelter” mug wouldn’t make sense, of course. But knowing I’m the guy writing this, there will be a tea related strip soon enough.