[I would like to think that if I'd actually tried hard to make a comic it wouldn't have looked as lame]

Y’know who’s pretty good at designing tees that are actually funny. Webcomic writers. It shouldn’t be surprising, and yet, here I am, a bit surprised. Crafting a tee that’s funny is a pretty tough business, there’s lots of ‘funny’ tees out there that simply don’t cut the mustard (what on earth does ‘cut the mustard’ even mean? Oh), so it makes perfect sense that sense that in my quest to find tees that both looked good and made me laugh I would hunt out people that draw and write things with the intention of making people laugh for a living. But I think that sells these writers short a bit too, since I’m also going to show you some designs that are plain old good, without the funny.

Since I don’t actually read all that many webcomics, I’ve used Cracked.com’s list of ‘The 8 Funniest Webcomics,’ and whilst I doubt that it’s all that conclusive and accurate of a list, they seemed pretty good to me, I’ve also picked some tees from my favourite webcomics. If you have any favourites that you think I’ve missed, feel free to leave a comment.

1. Penny Arcade - See, webcomic tees aren’t all about in-jokes! $17.99 Link

2. Dinosaur Comics - Who would’ve thought that a webcomic that uses about 5 different images for all of its’ stories wouldn’t have beautifully illustrated tees? $21 Link

3. Cat and Girl - Apparently this tee says “Chinese is not my native language,” but the description adds the caveat “more or less,” I might be paranoid, but I’d get that checked independently before wearing this… $19 Link

4. Overcompensating - One of my favourite items to read on a weekday (I started out with Jeffrey’s other comic, Wigu, but moved over to this), and one of my favourite tees from a webcomic. $18.99 Link

5. Achewood - I’ve only just started reading Achewood, so I have no idea what this tee means, and part of me knows that if I ever find out then I’ll no longer find it funny. $18 Link

6. White Ninja Comics - The internet clearly has some sort of obsession with ninja’s and I’m not going to stand in the way of that spilling over into the world of t-shirts. $18.50 Link

7. Diesel Sweeties - It’s so hard to choose from their range, they’ve got so many great designs, but I really like the idea of a tee that only shows a message when it’s night time (it’s just a white heart during the daytime). $18 Link

8. XKCD - I would like to shake the hand of a person that wore this to church. $14.99 Link

9. A Softer World - Zombies are far more likely to attack at night, since that’s scarier, so it’s a good thing this tee glows in the dark. $20 Link

10. The Perry Bible Fellowship - If you’re a guy, you’re far braver than me if you’re wearing a pink tee with a rainbow and a unicorn on it, or maybe I live in an intolerant rural area, who knows? $20 Link

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Wrongwroks have released their fall collection of tees, and in keeping with what seems to be a theme of theirs, all the designs are on white. There’s a couple of pieces that I think really stand out from the range.

Whilst I’m sure that it won’t be long before the lawyers coming knocking on their door, this tee is pretty freakin’ cool, and the tear idea is really well executed, sure, it doesn’t look as if there’s actually a tear in the material, but that’s probably half the point.

I guess I’m really into torn up looking designs today because the second tee I’ve picked follows a pretty similar idea, but this time does it in a fashion that I feel is kind of like when two posters get put on top of each other for advertising, and then one gets ripped for some reason. Wrongwroks have picked two great iconic pop culture images here and the tee works really well.

Both tees are priced at $35 and are available from the ‘Stuff’ section (they’re near the bottom of the thumbnails) of the Wrongwroks site.

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As if I needed further proof that I need to get out of the Lake District (I’m already pissed that I’m missing 100% Design down in London) I’ve found out about this cool looking ‘Fashion Shopping Event’ called Threadshow that’s going on in San Fransisco at the weekend. Lots of great brands are going to be there, so if you can make it then I would predict that it’ll be a lot of fun.

Here’s the link with all the details you need.

[thanks to Karl for making me jealous]

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I l-o-v-e the dedication to hand-drawn style in this tee, it looks like it came straight out of a school notebook. It’s also good to see Monstar dropping their skully logo into all their designs and keeping it all contextual, they’ve kind of got a Johnny Cupcakes thing going on in that respect.

Costiness=$20 URL

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