into the sea, you and me

2 new LOVECATS sets posted today: the loverly miss krystle from los angeles, california, and another short set from our montreal friend miss holly. enjoie, svp.

 

interesting tidbit about krystle: she just scored herself some free zbq shirts. how did she do it? all she had to do was to send us some beautiful pictures and promise to take more with the shirts we send her. if she does, and we have no doubt that she will, we'll send her more free stuff. sounds like fun, dunnit? if you think you might like to model for us and get some cool zb duds in the process, head to the LOVECATS join page. at this time we're mostly looking for ladies, though dudes are welcome to try.

hey, even if you don't want to be a part of the CATS, if you have a zbq shirt already you can get $3 off your next purchase for every picture you send us of yourself wearing your shirt that we use on this site. you can e-mail pics to us at snuzbq@gmail.com or use the upload form on the join page. for some dumb reason the upload form currently only works in firefox, safari & chrome (oh well).

LOVECATS is about more than just cheesecake though- there is a small but cool art channel which i hope to be growing quite quickly over the next little while. for starters, i'll be trying to archive all of the past and present zbq artists' work, so you'll be able to see it all in one place. i'm actively seeking visual artists of any medium who want to display their work. if you think you might be interested head to the join page.

thassall fer today, shweetums. contest winners will be announced and a new contest posted by the weekend. we're days away from rock banners, track jackets and zip-ups (in very limited supply). keep 'em peeled..............

2 new shirts and a bottle o' rye

howdy and happy thursday evening to you. as promised, i have posted 2 new prints today: wired blind and motherhood (white). well, newish anyway. motherhood (white) is another variation on motherhood, and wired blind is a variation on jade starr, a la neon yellow.
  



 
 

 
 

actually the title for wired blind came from a mister eliza supzsia, way back in the spring when i got off my lazy ass long enough to actually have a contest on this site (a sad situation i hope to remedy post haste- see below). i was trying to come up for a name for what is now called jade starr, so i held a contest. what if you held a contest and nobody came? well that's exactly what happened. but you know who did come to the party? elias. only elias. and elias was kind and generous enough to provide us with not 1, not 2, but 5 name suggestions: wired blind, deadly glow, silhouette, bright box and comfort inn. unfortunately by this point the deadline had passed so i had settled on jade starr, and damned if i was going to spend 15 minutes going into the database to change the name. but i kept elias's ideas, and since i decided to use one of them for this new variation of jade, in the spirit of the original contest i have offered him a free shirt. you just better hope he doesn't choose one of these wired blind shirts: there are only a handful, and since i just washed out several of the screens from that print it's unlikely to be printed again for a very long time (ditto for jade btw).

and in the spirit of the last contest, i think maybe it's time for a new one! so let's see...how about a little treasure hunt? hmmmm....... ok, i want you to find 3 designs in the store that only have one color and one style left. i think there are at least 4 or 5, so it shouldn't be that hard. the first 3 people to e-mail me a list of these 3 shirt designs will win a shirt of their choice, as long as it's in stock. remember- people don't usually bother taking the time to enter these things, so your chances are probably better than you think. although i may have just skewed that a little....

the first batch of zbq rock banners are finished and will be going up on the site within a week or less! and yes undies are still coming, but can't say for sure whether they'll be in time for xmush......2 new LOVECATS sets should be going live sometime within the next few days as well.....watch for in stock 11998844 track jackets within 2 weeks or less, in fairly limited numbers.....shirt designs on the backburner at the moment include something from our old friend thesis, halifax legend deza, a few undead flapper girls, alien centerfolds, washed up wrestlers and more giant oversized versions of some of our older classics. in short, 09 is lookin' busy, son. hop on board.

shake ya groove thing yeah yeah (show em how you do it now)

well that only took forever. a little while ago i decided to print about 600 shirts for the site, spruce the place up a bit with some minor updates & new features and eye candy. i figured i'd have it all wrapped up in 2, maybe 3 weeks. only thing is, it took me 2 freakin' months. but print those shirts i did, and i done posted 'em on my here web page for all y'all to freak on.

so let's get to it! first of all, i'm always the most jazzed about new prints, so i'm really happy to be posting a total of 4 completely new designs this week. first up, an update wouldn't be an update without a new robin antiga print: le punk.







i also brought back some more antiga mayhem with lots of new stock in 1984 and 11998844, plus a new variation called 11998844 brown.
     

next we have another re-visitation from an old zbq alumnus-jason nelson returns with the charming miss mind machine mary (and the mandatory mind machine mary inverse, bien sur):










i've also re-printed a batch of the first image of jason's we printed back in 2005: rEVELATIO (and rEVELATIO inverse, just because).

   

slawek kosolka has been a plumb first base runner and looks set to become a full-on heavy hitter this season with his third zbq print: 666.









and just because we love him so much, and because he is canadian, but mostly because we love him, i was very happy to reprint 3 more batches of slawek's particular brand of ocular discourse: deadphones, carbot and carbotorange.

    

but i didn't let the artists have all the fun. i managed to find time to cook up a new zbq in-house 6 color design: lucha sportivo.







and while we're on the subject of zb in-house designs and collabs, i also squeezed in some new prints from some old favorites (and variations thereof): vampire in paris, hawaii 84, hawaii 2084, undebs, war is hell (grey), goldie silver, jade starr, bikini landscape (grey), che grovera, our man in paris, the fall of kate, true confessions, white wasp and blood. cheez!

       
         
         

oh, and did i mention i also printed a bunch of guys' and girls' killbots (red & grey) tees? because, like, i did.keeley is the bomb guy. not girl. because that would mean he was not a guy. check out keeley's site at bloo empire.

so there you go. all told, 29 prints topped up, with 2 more coming later this week. hope you enjoy! guys' tees are $16 each, ladies' are $18, everything ships air within 24 hours. and up until christmas, we're having a "for anyone who's paying attention" sale. if you're still paying attention at this point, i'll let you in on a little secret: (pssst)....up until the end of the year, all shirts are buy 3 & get one free (ssshhhh)....all you need to do is to add the first 3 shirts to your shopping cart and then enter your choice for your free shirt in the "message to seller" section of the cart before checking out. i'm no good at math, but i do know that adds up to some pretty cheap nifty t-shirts for your holiday cheer-speadin' and such. it's beautiful baby.

and speaking of beautiful, do you recall me mentioning something about bringing thezerokidz back? you do? because that's just not going to happen. i have, however, cooked up a whole new page called LOVECATS which features most of the old zerokidz picture sets, as well as an art section with a starter selection of some of the artists we've worked with over the years.

   

i'll have more on LOVECATS in a few days. right now, poppa needs his beauty rest. sweet dreams.