AC '07 T-shirts

Perhaps last year's shirt requires some explanation. It was one of Scott Shaw's characters, called "Pig Iron". Since Pittsburgh is known for its steel industry, and it was our first year in the city, we figured that the two would go together nicely.

In years past, we would let the Guest(s) of Honor do the illustration for our conbook and t-shrit, though we do periodically evaluate alternatives. We'll keep the one you mentioned in mind. Thanks for bringing it up!

Actually..I've rather liked most of the AC t-shirt designs. And AC2005 had 2 shirt designs. The one with Kaze Ghost Warrior was so popular, completely ran out at the convention.

Shoot who cares what the shirt looks like. Its from Anthrocon. They could put doggie doo on it, and it would still rock, because of where I was when I got it. Anthrocon is life!

I have to agree with many things said and dissagree with many other things.

I agree its Anthrocon and the convention itself makes it rock no matter how butt ugly the shirt is, but yes, as Korth said, I would prefer a much more interesting looking shirt. The Kaze shirts were nice looking, as were the Samurai cat shirts from 2003. The Usagi shirts were OK at best, but they did seem a bit cartoony for my tastes and I have to be honest that I haven't worn mine at all since I bought it. I never really had an interest in the character. I suppose if Id seen more of the character and had an interest in its creation, then I'd want to wear the shirt more. I'm actually wearing the Samurai Cat shirt right now and its starting to Shrink from so many trips through the washer and dryer. I half wish you would put out some more of them so I can retire this one and get a larger one.

You might consider having the Guest(s) do a series of pics and post them to the site with a voting option.

CJ

I suppose I should confess that I was the one who made the original suggestion to Mr. Shaw! to use Pig-Iron on the shirt. I thought that with our move to Pittsburgh, it would be apropo. I'm sorry you did not like the design.

We'll see if what our esteemed guests come up with this year is a little more to your tastes.

I should like to add my vote - that is, if anybody is counting - to the idea of a T-shirt competition, for the best design.

AnthroCon and other conventions, most noticably Further Confusion, have of late been drawing their Guests-of-Honor from outside of the "mainstream" Furry community, which has led to exposure of the congoers to a broader world of Science Fiction and Fantasy in general, and Anthropomorphic representation in particular. Each guest that AnthroCon has invited has been a treasure, and each has in turn been charmed enough by the association as to stand up for us when the subject of just what are those crazy Furries all about has been brought up.

Thanks to this move on AnthroCon's part, we are winning friends and influencing people.

However - trying to fit established characters into a convention theme, particularly if the congoers' exposure to that character may be somewhat limited, has been difficult; it has led to T-shirts which have appeared to be obtuse non-sequiturs, difficult to explain to other furfen, let alone mundanes, or to T-shirts depicting a well-known character, represented as travelling to (City hosting the event) for reasons obscure to any mundanes seeing the T-shirt.

And the designs have tended to lack a certain "punch" which most furry fans would like to have displayed on their person, something that says "I'm a Furry (Ask me about it)!"

We are thankful that your GoH's have been kind enough to submit T-shirt designs, and trying to come up with a design that pleases and fulfills everyone's ideas about what they might wish to wear is understandably difficult - but a T-shirt contest might offer a nice alternative, from a range of ideas and views and a gaggle of submissions.

I don't think that any of your Honored Guests would feel offended if "their" convention was memorialised with a T-shirt designed by someone else, addressing that year's theme.