It’s time for some new art, and today’s designs are especially exciting because one of them is part of our brand new guest artist program. Remember Melinda? She created this very awesome masterpiece and we’re selling it right here on Ex-Boyfriend!

Those who hang around here regularly know I’m no stranger to poking fun at religion, so Melinda’s fun with nuns was a perfect addition to the offerings around here. I might be featuring other awesome artists in the coming months. This guest artist thing is a new experiment. If you’re an illustrator and you’re interested in working with me, let me know.

I also have new art by yours truly. Check it out (this design is also on tees, hoodies and messengers of course):

Lastly, remember my post about the new boozy dietary supplement Drinkwel? The very awesome founder of Drinkwel has offered to send over a sample so I can report first hand on this scientific miracle. I have a feeling I’m going to have lots of good material for upcoming Thirsty Thursdays.

I’ll let you know where I’m planning to decimate my liver this week in case you care to stalk me around Baltimore and maybe try to steal the clothes off my back.

I finally got around to getting some new art online. Apologies for the lack of new designs, it’s been a busy summer. Below are the newest creations. I hope you dig them:

In other Ex-Boyfriend’ish news, Fall is coming! To keep you warm and stylish I’m looking into ordering some long sleeved tees. For the guys, I’m looking at American Apparel’s 4.3 oz cotton long sleeve jersey. For the ladies, I’m look at Bella’s 3.5 oz cotton long sleeve crew neck jersey. Both are fairly light weight cotton and nice for layering. Let me know what your interest level is like and if I get some good feedback I’ll make these available. If you know of some better blank or have other comments, let me know below, or just reply to the poll below.

In the meantime, here’s what the blanks I’m considering look like:

I worked on some new illustrations over the weekend, both in the realm of word play and both featuring creepy characters. First up: Zombie Boyfriends Bite

Next up: Web Surfing is Dangerous

I’ve been designing lots of new shirts lately. Below are two of the newest ones:

Also, we now have tote bags! They’re perfect for the beach, overnights and of course as reusable grocery totes. (Guys: Let’s be honest, tote bags that look manly are few and far between. If we’re lucky they’ve got some tomatoes on them and if we’re not they’re pink and covered in flowers, right? The new totes collection is chock full of manly designs featuring stuff like hammers, Bigfoot and zombies. MAN STUFF!)

New art for your perusal…

Although I do the actual drawings around here, many of the design concepts come from my wife. She’ll be fast to tell you that she can’t even draw a stick figure but she’s creative nonetheless. On a typical weeknight you’ll find us curled on the couch with a bottle of wine watching Rachel Maddow. (When I say a bottle of wine literally we’re usually drinking from the bottle, wino-style, because we’re too lazy to hand wash our delicate wine glasses. Is that wrong?)  The other night this commercial for Scott Trade came on and my semi-drunk sweetie giggled and said “Unicorn ranch… hehe… that’s funny. Matt, draw a unicorn ranch!”  Really, this is how a lot of the design ideas come to life around here.

Any way, how was your weekend? I spent mine prying SPCA donations from our friends with liquor and cupcakes. (s’mores, mint chocolate, margarita,  rum raisin and vanilla chai, om nom nom)

I can’t send you cupcakes through the intertubes but I will send you a nifty keychain bottle opener if you help me raise some more cash for the critters. (Now through April 17th I’m donating 100% of the proceeds from bottle opener sales to the MD SPCA.)

I normally fill this space with more amusing stuff, but I’m spent after a busy weekend of new art and website tweaks. If you frequent these parts you’ll notice a few tweaks to the website. Just some minor stuff here and there that hopefully makes the site a little easier to navigate.

So the new art, please admire Groucho Barks and these cute new allium dudes:

Also, we have a new contest winner for our monthly comment-on-this-blog-to-win-free-stuff contest. The winner is:

“Hey look! Henry Waxman got new glasses””
-Jill @ Liv’nGood Jewelry wrote in response to Title This Tuesday: Obama Made a New Friend

Don’t despair, you can totally be our March winner. All you have to do is leave some comments around the blog

Final note, I am raising funds for the MDSPCA’s March for the Animals. Please make a donation? As always, purchases made on this website help raise funds for the critters. In the next week or so I’ll be releasing a special line of goodies with 100% of the net profits going to this March for the Animals (more on that soon, stay tuned.)

Fallen down on your fitness-related new year’s resolutions already? You probably just lack proper motivation. I know I’d be much more likely to hit the treadmill instead of the Ben and Jerry’s if I was dutifully preparing for a zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately I don’t live in Chicago, so I can’t get my ass in shape with ZombieFit.

Zombie fit is a work out program with a practical focus, surviving Z-day. With your zombie readiness work out routine you will be able to lift and throw heavy stuff, run fast and for long distances, and navigate obstacles and urban environments in an efficient manner. Sounds handy.

In totally unrelated news, instead of hitting the gym over the weekend I designed a new tee. I would have designed more tees, but Lost has totally taken over my life. We are watching it on Netflix and we’re completely riveted. In the meantime, enjoy Chow Guevara and look for more new art soon:

Just a quick note to let you all know we picked a favorite comment for December:

“*GrumbleGrumbleGrumble* At this rate, I’d rather be a handbag! ”
-Damaris wrote in response to Title This Tuesday: This is Why Alligators Hate Kids

Keep your entertaining comments coming, we’ll pick a new winner at the end of January.

Also, I designed a new tee for the Valentine fans:

It’s no secret that Baptist evangelical Freddie Gage’s All My Friends Are Dead sermon LP has spawned a lot of homages and parodies over the years. I had initially thought about doing this design “straight”, using an actual historical figure. But the wife made a suggestion last night (after I had already completed the design, as is often the case) that maybe a zombie might be a better subject. After my customary tantrum at having to scrap hours of work, I got started on the revision. It turns out she was right (as is often the case.)