The Fire Cracker Jack Is Back

We’ve restocked these in Heather Gray and added a new Heather Green as well. Our most popular shirt for some reason. It’s the red isn’t it. You guys like that red don’t you. Yeah you do.

Go South

We printed a couple of things in this show at Young Blood. Should be worth your while.

Your Brain Is A Red Liar

Our brains are hard wired to respond to red. Evolutionary psychologists explain this by pointing out that in the time before writing, when our brains were developing, if you saw red, something was happening that was worth your attention. You could be leaking red blood, something might be trying to eat you with its red mouth, delicious meat was red, your loincloth might be on red fire, those red berries might kill you, etc. Because your reptile brain learned these things, we still fixate on the color today.

After black and white, red is far and away the most requested ink color by our clients. It’s so common, it’s cliche. For fun, ask a graphic designer to make something redder and bigger, sit back and watch them regret being born.

When your brain sees something close to red it responds like that dog in the Beggin’ strips commercial. “Is that red? It is! Red!”
It’s not. Your brain wants its fix and lies to you to get it. For example:

• Red onions: Not red. That color is called purple.
• Redheads: Their hair is orange or brown. Your brain thinks rhymes are fun.
• Red foxes/pandas/squirrels/kangaroos/lemurs: Again, orange or brown.
• Red rooster: Brown rooster makes brain sad–no alliteration.
• Red robin: See above.
• Red wolf: Gray. Much like the gray wolf, you might say.
• Red clover/redbud tree: Purple flowers. Say it with me. Purple.
• Red fescue: Grass is green. Five year olds know this.
• Rednecks: Sunburns are pink.
• Red-eye gravy: Both disgusting and brown.
• Red clay (Georgia): It’s dirt. Dirt is brown. Might have an argument for orange, but not red.
• Red Indian: Your brain is a racist.

Nancy Spungen said it best: “Never trust a junkie.” Especially not one with reverse red-green color blindness.

Durerhino

If someone described a creature to you that you’d never seen before, that lived on another continent you had never been to, do you think you could draw it from just their words?

Albrecht Dürer could. Well, sort of.
He got it mostly right.

Buffalo

New print from Matt Leunig.

Broad & Peachtree

Remember when Atlanta had no trees?
Sure you do. You took the Walker Street trolley from Snake Nation down to Broad & Peachtree to work in the cotton warehouse. Then rode it to meet your girl at the
Pig N’ Whistle on Ponce for a hotdog.

Segue into poster details goes here.
We printed these CMYB (Brown), and because we understand that as an American you like things “extra large,” we gave you big 25 line screen dots. Enjoy.

Tyson Mcadoo

We’ve got a few prints left of
Tyson Mcadoo’s Venom.
No hot girls were harmed in the making of this print.

Matt Leunig

We recently finished this print by Mr. Leunig for Ween at the 40 Watt. If you missed the show you can get it on his site.
http://posters.scrapedknee.com

Live Prints

We’re packing up to go on the road again.
Come see us live on Adult Swim’s Rag Bag of Jollification tour stops from 6pm-11pm.

If you can guess how much these press cases weigh, we’ll give you a free shirt.
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Baton Rouge, LA – Wednesday, March 30
Fred’s Bar Parking Lot, 1184 Bob Pettit Blvd

College Station, TX – Saturday, April 02
Dixie Chicken, 202 1st Street

Albuquerque, NM – Monday, April 04
Park It Place Lot, 224 Central Ave SW

Tucson, AZ – Wednesday, April 06
O’Malley’s on the Fourth, 300 E 7th

San Diego, CA – Saturday, April 09
4th & B, 345 B Street

Denver, CO – Tuesday, April 12
University of Colorado, Buffalo Plaza
Between Batch Fieldhouse and
Folsom Stadium

Lawrence, KS – Thursday, April 14
Street Closure – 8th St., between Massachusetts St. & New Hampshire St.

Champaign, IL – Saturday, April 16
The Red Lion, 211 E Green Street

Lansing, MI – Monday, April 18
Mac’s Bar, 2700 E Michigan Ave.
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Mangirl

Black males in their 20s (and sadly 30s), who would reply in the affirmative if asked “Do you feel you live a Hip-Hop lifestyle?”, share many common interests with pre-teen white suburban girls. Don’t believe me?

1. They both get excited about anything with bubble lettering on it. Clothes, school supplies and shoes. Some of them will even write that way on walls or sidewalks, but only if they don’t think their parents will find out.

2. Speaking of shoes, they love to collect them. Like whole closets full. Even though they’ve only got two feet. If you’re obsessed with footie socks, chances are good you’re a black dude or a cheerleader.

3. On the subject of collecting, guess how they both feel about stickers.

4. You’ll often see them travel in packs at the mall. However, if their friends aren’t around they will often take every opportunity to tell you how much they can’t stand their “friends”.

5. They constantly post about their boring lives on Facebook. Guess what? We don’t care about your new mix tape, or what was said by Mrs. Shermer in algebra class.

Young black males: You dolts realize you have more in common with Hannah Montana than Tony Montana right? Honestly, I wouldn’t have such a problem with this new Roscoe Dash, Soulja Boyesque kind of young black male, but when did you guys decide to abandon your last alpha male bargaining chip?

I also don’t understand the very feminine matchy match need either. Your red fake eyeglasses matching your red Braves cap, matching your red skinny Levi jeans matching your patten leather red Nikes. Do you guys know the term contrast? It can be pleasant when two things aren’t exactly the same.

For instance, when men are not like girls.