We’ve engaged the “it” male model of the moment to showcase our aways-in-style DR. BLASPHEMY T-SHIRT. More than just another pretty face, this fine specimen of modern masculinity projects just the right mix of fresh faced youth and raw sexual charisma to hijack magazine covers everywhere.

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Marvel letterer and wild man artist Rick Parker dressed to the nines while taking care of the backed up plumbing at Book Expo of America. Terry Nantier and Jim Salicrup seem delighted with his choice in fashion.

There’s a very cool series of photo-comic interviews by Seth Kushner over on Act-i-vate.com. The latest, with Eclectic Method’s Jonny Wilson, features Jonny decked out in the infamous Dr. Blasphemy T-shirt. Check out the complete interview here.

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My brother has been running a carpentry business in Vermont since the mid-1970’s. Back when I was at Kubert School, in 1977, he asked me to design a logo for him but never did anything with it. Then this week he showed up with some freshly printed T-Shirts sporting the thirty-two year old design. Holds up pretty good I think!

A month or so ago, when I was celebrating Fashion Week by posting my various T-Shirt designs here on the blog, I got in touch with Bubblin’ Bob Chapman over at Graphitti Designs to see if he had any inventory of the couple shirts I did with him back in the 1990’s. Sure enough, Bob turned up a few of these fabulous SNAKE shirts, featuring my full color cover to RARE BIT FIENDS #5. I bought out the remaining inventory and am offering them for sale on this site.

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We only have two sizes available, LARGE and MEDIUM. These are 100% preshrunk Hanes Heavyweights, with the top quality reproduction Graphitti Designs is famous for. While they last: only$16 apiece, plus $4 shipping in the US. International shipping is $12.

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Fashion Week ends here on rickveitch.com with this two piece ensemble. These matching hats and shirts were done in 1996 to support my dream comic, RARE BIT FIENDS, but I think the message is a universal one. The print run has long been sold out, with these being the last examples I have.

T-shirts are a lovely but ephemeral art form. Since people bond with them and wear them out even the greatest designs tend to disappear after a while. So if you are thinking of picking up a @#*! DR. BLASPHEMY shirt, grab one before they are gone forever. Also I still have a handful of the ancient Tundra era MAXIMORTAL shirts at blow out prices.

John Crowe of Neon Monster in San Francisco shows off the ultimate in geek chic for WIRED Magazine’s photo spread baring the secret lives of comic store employees.

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This shirt was created for a family reunion back in the mid 1980’s. The Veitch tribe had been spread out over God’s country and we were finally going to all be in the same place for the first time in a decade. I played off one of my favorite cartoon logos, the Pep Boys, and caricatured my brothers, sister and self to fit (I think I make a pretty good Moe). My last copy of this design ended up becoming a cover to a sketchbook. Brother Pete (upper right) loaned me this example from his personal collection.

This is the very first T-shirt I ever did, way, way, waaay back in 1982. I was working on my first graphic novel, ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN, for EPIC Illustrated, and also assisting Al Williamson every once in while. Just for fun, one day Al amazingly inked this shot of ABRAXAS over my pencils so I used it on a small run of three dozen shirts as Christmas gifts for my friends. This is the only surviving example that I know of.

I dug deep in the back of my dresser drawers trying to turn up a Sizzlin’ Sixty-Three T-Shirt, but no luck. I think the last one I had ended up as my brush rag. These were done under license with Graphitti Designs back in 1993; released to the Direct Sales Market to coincide with the launch of the 1963 mini-series from Image.

I’ve got Bob Chapman at Graphitti trying to locate any inventory he might have stashed but so far no luck. Copy for the above ad, that appeared in Mystery Incorporated #1, written by Affable Al Moore, art and lettering by Dandy Don Simpson (except for the Red Brain down in the corner, which I illustrated and lettered in some sort of last minute change). Color by Merry Marvin Kilroy.