Curbside Clothing’s Artist Of The Week Draws Inspo From Superhero Comics

by Brendan M. Allen

All right. All right. I’ll admit it. I’m just a little bit of a clothes horse. I only wear three kinds of shirts. I have about three dozen custom bowling shirts, a bunch of SF Giants jerseys, and several dozen Curbside Clothing T-shirts.

Those Curbside shirts are the only T-shirts I’ll wear. Why, you might ask? I can’t stand solid color T-shirts, I hate shirts with quippy phrases and massive logos on them (except a massive SF, for obvious reasons), and I will 100% go home/back to my hotel room to change if someone has on the same shirt as me. 

Bear and Mouse, by Dave Koenig

That brings us back to Curbside Clothing. These cats get it. Mostly. They offer a ton of really cool, unique designs by artists ranging from Omaha surrealist Adam Hogan to Taylor Harpster, with his off-the-wall pen and ink style. I’m not super keen on the wildlife stuff from Maya Ripley and Lance Everill, but to each their own. Whatever material blend they’re using on these shirts is ridiculously soft and comfortable, and… there are no tags to scratch your tender neck meat. 

Curbside’s featured artist this week is Justin Barker, who pulls his inspiration from comics and graphic novels. Barker always wanted to be a comics artist, but got sidetracked by teaching and music. Now he designs websites, gig posters and CD layouts for Phoenix bands, and T-shirts for Curbside Clothing. 

Dead Astro City, by featured artist Justin Barker

Curbside is currently offering a massive 35% off sitewide with code FIRE35, so you can grab your own awesome shirts at an absolute steal. But, just so you’re aware, if we see each other at the next con, and we happen to be in the same shirt, there will be a battle. There can be only one.