Background: There’s a t-shirt site, Shirt.Woot!, that sells shirts based on, amongst other things, user/crowd submitted designs. Once a week they hold a contest of sorts, where a theme is selected and people submit potential shirt designs based upon that theme. Winners get paid and to see a shirt they created manufactured.

This week’s theme is Zombies, and in a stroke of fairly broad-minded tolerance, the Shirt.Woot people have left open the possibility for Zombie Friendly designs to win the day:

The undead have taken over pop culture. Whether you subscribe to Romero’s philosophy that it’s because the conflict of teeming undead versus desperate survivors mirrors the socio-economic class warfare waging between the haves and have-nots or the more realistic philosophy that people just like the idea of running around with shotguns and looting crap, you have to admit they’re everywhere. So this week the dead shall rise…up our Derby fog. Give us your best undead designs and don’t spare the macabre. Whether it’s epic conflict against the ghouls or the lamentations of the misunderstood common zombie, show us what all the trendiest post-apocalyptic survivors will be wearing once there’s no room left in hell.

See? They’re willing to make a shirt that’s Zombie Friendly, if an appropriate and popular enough design is submitted.

Now, the ZRC isn’t really about licensing out our work, we keep our stuff in house, but we’re willing to endorse and promote it when someone else is putting out a Zombie Friendly design.

Happily enough, there are quite a few that could meet with ZRC approval, along with, of course, a host of Anti-Zombie or disturbing shirt images.

Notable sympathetic or Zombie Friendly designs include (click on the links to see the full size images at the original site):

-’Whoops‘, which shows Zombies at play and working to overcome any of the limited drawbacks to being Differently Animated

-‘How Much Is That Zombie in the Window?’, which shows that the ZRC isn’t the only organization out there trying to promote more positive imagery of Zombie Dogs

-‘Our Tastes Haven’t Changed…Much’, a design which manages to play with the brain-eating meme enough to avoid my ire. What’s so wrong with eating a brain cream?

-A bit heavy on the brain-eating, again, but the ‘After All, We’re Not Animals‘ line is a zinger.

Some entries of course aren’t so Zombie Friendly.

-This ‘Zombie Jealousy’ one is just playing up the ‘Zombies eat your neighbors’ theme, plus it seems to be attempting to sow discord amongst the Differently Animated.

Some are just bizarre.

-Zombie..snail…brain…shell? Wha? This might make a tiny bit of sense if it was a Hermit Crab Zombie; snails secrete their shells, they don’t forage for them.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a few that jumped out at me; the ZRC heartily encourages people to go and vote up their Zombie Friendly favorites.

Tags: Anti-Zombie Products, Zombie Art, Zombie Products

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