Crippen Cartoons cartoons at the cutting edge of disability

I’ve finally found an ethical T-shirt manufacturer and printer who ticks all of the environmental boxes, and then some.

They are called Teemill and surprisingly they have their head office located just down the road from me on the Isle of Wight. They also provide all of Greenpeace’s T-shirts which is an endorsement in itself.

Part of my agreement with them is that I can set up an online store, displaying T-shirts for men, women and children and also special one-off commissions for people. I’ve selected about 20 of my most popular cartoons to start the process off but can add to this as the store develops. I’m also hoping to get mouse mats, mugs and other merchandise online as soon as I can.

Price wise the T-shirts retail at £19.00 plus postage and packaging which some might consider to be at the more expensive end of the market. However, when you consider that the T-shirts are not produced in an Asian sweat shop as so many items of clothing are, that in itself is a big bonus.

Also, all profits from the sale of the T-shirts are going into my Crippen Cartoon Resurrection Project where I’m recreating all of the grey scale cartoons I produced back in the 1980’s and 90’s.

So, stuck for a unique gift for a friend or looking for something to enhance your own wardrobe that is not only good quality but also sustainable, then look no further. You can also send me a photograph of the T-shirt being worn and I’ll post it up on the store front.

You can visit Crippen’s online T-shirt store here.

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A photograph of Crippen – disabled cartoonist, wearing one of his T-shirts. The T-shirt is black and has a full coloured cartoon portraying the notorious charity collector Captain Pratt. Confronted by a wheelchair user holding a large sign that reads ‘Rights not Charity’ Captain Pratt is saying: “What IS your problem?!”