New Flip Top Lighter Designs

Been working up some lighter designs to have produced at Artsnow. These will be sold at my eBay store...All-4-Corners. Here's latest batch...gangsters and tough trucks:



What we have there are a couple of our favorite gangsters...Al "Scarface" Capone and John Dillinger. The two vehicles are Willys-Overland vehicles...a red '52 Willys Pickup and a yellow '48 Jeepster.
All four of these topics have sold for me before on other items. I figure they'll make a pretty good test to see if there is any demand for flip-top lighters.

New Line of Charles Darwin T-Shirts

Just unveiled a new set of shirts featuring Charles Darwin quotes on RetroRanger. Three different designs to get things rolling. They all use the same woodcut-portrait of Darwin plus one of three quotes:

On Survival: "It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one
that is the most adaptable to change."

On Personal Biases: “A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”

On Time: “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

My Charles Darwin Quote T-Shirt:

Red Chevy Stepside Belt Buckle

Just listed this new sweetheart on eBay...the Red Stepside Belt Buckle. Its a pretty red mid-1960s Stepside Pickup over what I call the "candyburst" background. The truck is modeled after a short C10, a really great old truck.

T-Shirts Featuring Duct Tape Designs

Funny entry on the three coolest Duct Tape Tshirts over at Today's Coolest T-Shirts

Today's Coolest Duct Tape T-Shirts

Alamo Heroes Watch

Just uploaded this sweetie to eBay...my Alamo Heroes Wristwatch featuring portraits of Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and William Barrett Travis.

Retro Flying Tigers T-Shirt

Just uploaded to RetroRanger is this very cool Flying Tigers T-Shirt, featuring retro advertising for the famous post-World War Two cargo carrier..



Bold vintage advertising art from 1946 for the Flying Tigers
Line...National Skyway Freight that was the successor to the Flying
Tigers who fought the Japanese in China.

TV Shows from Hulu

Hulu.com is awesome. A great library of old TV shows and movies. Free to watch or use on your website or blog.

Here's a Mary Tyler Moore episode embed from hulu.com

I bet a go-getter entrepreneur could sell some DVD collections with this feature.

Conan Doyle Watch

Sold: CONAN DOYLE WATCH Sherlock Holmes Author $24.99
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160222267993

Barack Obama Sin City T-Shirt

Just uploaded to RetroRanger is this new Barack Obama in the Sin City rain T-shirt...



This is obviously a parody of the neo-noir style incorporated by Frank Miller in his Sin City graphic novels. I like the way this came out and think it makes for a great visual. And I think the setting is appropriate, as Hillary and Bill are about as close as you can come to the Roark family in real life.


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Throwback MG Morris Garages T-Shirt

Decided I could put some old MG TC clipart to double duty. already used it for Frenchy's Driving Academy, and this afternoon threw together a throwback MG automobiles "Morris Garages" design.



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eBay Trends

eBay is a funny critter. I've been selling on eBay since 1998 and I still don't have a good feel for the ebb and flow of buyer engagement. Sometimes things are going gangbusters and sometimes the sales trickle to nothingness.
The tendency during periods of hot sales is to think that I'm a genius. Obviously. During slow times the general thought is that eBay is somehow screwing up my sales. Those bastards...what are they screwing around with now? Changing the search parameters again? Running a TV campaign targeted at Mongolian shepherds?
So it was interesting to come across this tidbit I found while playing around on Alexa. Comparing the last 6 months of traffic on eBay and Amazon...you'll see that both sites follow similar traffic patterns. I find the hard Alexa numbers of little use, because, let's face it, they're not very hard numbers. They are percentages of an unknown. But I do find the relationship between these two interesting, if only because it shows that seasonal fluctuations in traffic are for the most part out of their hands.

The Red Car MG TC Shirt

I read a book when I was a kid that I just loved called "The Red Car" by Don Stanford. It was a story of a teen named Hap Adams who comes upon a beat-up MG TC sports car, restores it to running condition, and learns the joys of sports cars and driving from the town mechanic named Frenchy Lascelle.

I have a piece of clip-art of an old MG that I came across today. It got me to thinking of that book and set me to work on a t-shirt for Frenchy's Driving Academy, were there such a place. Maybe some others who read The Red Car will appreciate this design, available on shirts and other items at RetroRanger.

New Boobies Titties Hooters T-Shirt

Gee, what was on my mind when I loaded this up to RowdyTease last night. Actually I pinched the Boobies idea from a shirt worn by a hootersgirl-type character from an episode of that Arliss Sports Agent show on ESPN. This is our Boobies Jr. Spaghetti Tank:

Red Willys Pickup Wristwatch

\I'm a big big fan of the Willys-Overland Jeepsters and pickups of the late 40s and early 50s...just very cool styling IMO. Here's a new Willys Pickup watch I put together for eBay sales featuring a 1952 Willys Overland pickup truck. Very cool dial which I modeled after a Willys-Overland speedometer of the period.

I think its the small details that will make the sale, and the extra time and effort reseraching the design is well worth it.


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Barack Obama's Stop in Basin City

Working on some lighters today. Here's Barack Obama in the Sin City rain. It should be noted that Det. John Hartigan is a big believer in Obama's message of Hope. Sure he is. Is so.



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