If you have placed an order since April 1st, I will be ordering your shirt from the printer tomorrow and shipping out as soon as they arrive. I hope to be placing shirt orders every two weeks from here on out and weekly as soon as the store really picks up.

Thank you for your patience as I am using a new supplier and am getting adjusted to the new process. I really appreciate your support.

That also means if you are planning to order a shirt and would like to receive it with the first batch, you should probably order it before Thursday (the 17th) afternoon. 

I would also like to get your feedback on the items I am working on adding to the store. Let me know which items hold the most interest for you.

• More shirts - I hope to get a new design up every week or two.
• Prints of comics - These would be full color prints, suitable for framing, about 8.5×11″ size. They would also be signed.
• Stickers - haven’t found a printer yet for these but I have some designs in mind. Do you know of a good sticker printer? Do you have a sticker you would like to see? Sharksplode?
• E-Book - with behind the scenes info on the making of the first 100 comics (I’m not to 100 quite yet). It will have sketches, outlines, script notes and an mp3 with audio commentary.
• Real Books - here’s a dilemma. I would love to print an HE book in full color (preferably the first 2 years of comics) when the time comes, but that is a ways off. I can’t do full color with a print on demand site like Lulu.com because they would charge ME $25-35 per book depending on page numbers. I wouldn’t want to charge more than $20 for the book to YOU guys. That means I can either have NO books for a very long time, or do a black and white book (very affordable through Lulu) with the first 100 comics. If you bought that, it would be with the knowledge that a full color version would be on the way 8-10 months later. Would HE make any sense in B&W. Don’t know how I feel about that.

UDPATE:

I might not be able to place the order until tonight or tomorrow (Friday the 18th) morning, so if you want to get yours in, go ahead.

Special thanks to the Fancy Bastards that helped design this one. I think it turned out fantastic and that’s mostly due to your suggestions and feedback during the design process.

Head over to the store and pick one up.

I think this might be it. Thoughts before I post it in the store?+

UPDATE!!

It’s in the store now!

This shirt design is kicking my ass but I think it’s getting stronger with each revision thanks, in no small part, to your suggestions.

After completing the Josh art I am leaning one of two directions.

Josh by himself:

Or the original layout:

Joel, Eli and the planet in the background will be light or ghosted. Probably grayscale.

I like the text much better in this split configuration. I hope to wrap this up and get it in the store in the next day or two, so get your feedback in as soon as possible.

Oh, also I’m thinking this will work best on a black shirt. Any other ideas?

-Joel

UPDATE (4/10/08 @ 1:45pm):

I’ve been reading all the suggestions and messing around with new design concepts. I normally would just design the shirt and put it in the store, but this one is special. It’s the “I’m A Fancy Bastard” shirt. This brands you as an HE reader because NO ONE ELSE could ever understand it. Taking the best bits from all the suggestions and mixing them with my own ideas I’ve come up with these:

Ignore the background color. I just used a neutral gray to sketch over. I think Joel and Eli would be in gray tones kind of in shadow.

Thoughts?

(more…)

If you have one of the “Roslin ‘08” shirts, please send me a pic of you wearing it. It’s not for my personal naughty business. Its for COMMERCE!

This will be the first shirt added to the store, and possibly the only one from the old lot (unless anyone is interested in the Dumbldore Shirts).

FYI, I will use these pics in ads, banners, on the site, etc.

Thanks!

Joel

Check out the new shirts:

Rosilin ‘08 (Guys and Girls Styles)

Don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for Baltar. It’s time to do our Colonial duty and re-elect President Roslin. Not only did she save us from the Cylons like 100 times (Adama helped), but she’s also a reincarnated prophet or something.

Don’t Phase Me, Bro! (Guys and Girls Styles)

Jean-Luc! What are you doing? I didn’t mean to drink the last Earl Grey, Bro. No Bro! Don’t phase me, Bro! AHHHH! AHHHGGGHH!!! THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS!

Seriously, Bro. Don’t phase me. Be a Bro, Bro.

iPwn3d Shirt (Guys and Girls Styles)

Did you pwn3? Was there pwn4ge? Do you want everyone to know? Raise your head high and tell them, “iPwn3d.”

What is going on? What am I doing? Where is the comic? What the crap?

I have several projects that I am wrapping up this week and just didn’t have time to finish today’s comic without rushing. I will be posting it Monday. Lot’s of cool stuff in the works.

First: If you are in Dallas, TX, pick up this week’s Dallas Observer. I’ve been doing story art for them for the last couple of weeks. It’s been a lot of fun. This week the story is about a “Singstar PS2 Mall Tour.” I will find out if I’m allowed to post the art here. Maybe as a desktop.

Second: Desktops! I’m working on them now. I will be posting an “Extras” Page (hopefully) this weekend for your downloading pleasure.

Last part!: THE STORE!!!! OK, fellas, here’s the deal. The shirt orders are trickling in but not fast enough to warrant all this presale nonsense. You may have noticed that I took the “Wizard Pride” shirt down. There just weren’t enough orders to have them printed. Well F to that. I want those super cool people to have those super cool shirts. This weekend I will be launching a new store through Bountee.com. Bountee is a fulfillment service like CafePress or Zazzle but instead of super crappy iron-on transfers, they use a super

awesome Direct to Garment Printing Process. This is real ink on real shirts that are retail quality. They even do dark color shirts.

If you have already preordered: I am in the process of converting your preorders to Bountee orders. The good news is that you will get your shirts a lot sooner. The bad news (for me) is that I didn’t charge enough during the presale, so I will be losing money on these shirts. YOU STILL WIN!!!
If you haven’t ordered yet: The bountee store will be up this weekend. There will also be some new designs. I will post a link on the site as soon as it is live. The shirts are a couple of dollars more but they ship internationally for $5 and do not charge more for XXL sizes.

The Magically Fabulous shirt is available from Bountee.com/user/hijinksensue right now!

The Wizard Pride shirt will be up shortly!

Where’s the comic? Why didn’t I have time to make one? Here’s why:

That’s right! The HijiNKS Ensue Store is open for bid-ness. Expect more shirts coming soon. I worked all last week on these designs so the comic had to be put on hold. Not to fret! Comics will be back on Thursday with scary Halloweenish themes! Do me a favor and Digg the store.