Celtic Art & Retro-Futuristic Design
	Celtic Art Books
	Saga Shirts
	Retropolis Transit Authority
	Non-Conformists Union, Local 404
	the Retrovert
	Woodworking Gifts

Here's how you can take 15% of my income - and I'm not man enough to stop you!

    The posters, t-shirts, drinkware and other items available in my online stores are printed on demand by CafePress (two exceptions are noted below).

    Cafepress has launched an Affiliate Sales program through Commission Junction. This makes it possible for anyone with a web page or web site to link to a store or its merchandise and collect 15% of the sales generated by that link.

    So if you have your own web site, a blog, or even your own page at myspace.com or elsewhere, you can take advantage of this program by sending traffic to my sites, or to a particular item on my sites, using your affiliate code in the link.

    The program is administered by Commission Junction; you ned to have a CJ account in order to participate. So the first step is to start an affiliate "Publisher" account at Commission Junction by signing up.

    When your account is activated, you'll register your web site and receive an affiliate code number, called a PID. That's the code you'll need to use to get credit for your referrals.

    With that done, use CJ's Advertiser search tool to locate the Cafepress Affiliate Program. Apply for it. When you're approved you'll be ready to start advertising my sites or products on your own pages.

    You should follow my linking instructions, rather than using the CJ tools to generate links, because most of the shops listed here are custom web sites - not Cafepress shops - and you'll need to link to them a little differently. It's very easy to do.

In order for you to make 15% of the retail price of my items you should follow the instructions I've posted on my Affiliate Linking page.

    I'm also providing banners in a couple of configurations, and I'll give you some pointers on how best to promote each of my stores.

    There are two types of items which are not included in the Affiliate Program, because they come from different vendors. The Archival Prints pages at Celtic Art & Retro-Futuristic Design offer high quality prints from another vendor, and so they're sadly not included. And also at Celtic Art & Retro-Futuroistic Design, I have a "Special Collection" black, silk screened shirt that is sold through another vendor. But every other single piece of merchandise - and there are hundreds - is eligible.

So get cracking!

Saga Shirts and the Retropolis Transit Authority, which you see on the right, are not Cafepress shops and so aren't eligible for the program.

    This was my first online venture and it's probably still my favorite. Don't tell the other sites.

    Here I get to exercise both sides of my brain. You see, there are a couple of different worlds I like to explore in my work and most people wouldn't think they fit together very well.
    On the one hand, you've got traditional and non-traditional Celtic Art - while on the other you've got the streamlined retro-futuristic world of The Future That Never Was, home to folks like Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and, well, my own characters.
    Anyway people tell me it does sort of all fit together, but then again, they may be humoring me. Mainly they're sort of backing away with their hands up at the time. Decide for yourself!
 


   Celtic Art Books is the home of my very own book of Celtic knotwork designs - "Celtic Knotwork Borders in Repeating Sections " - in which I use a pretty unique modular system to help you plot out your own knotwork borders in squares, rectangles and circles using the minimum number of border parts and, I think, minimal effort.
   Each of the patterns in the book contains straight and corner sections, along with arc sections for making circular borders. Half of the designs also include branching borders that you can use to subdivide a rectangular frame horizontally, vertically, or both. It's just as neat as I could make it.
   In addition, I've put together a bunch of blank books with Celtic borders on every page and some striking full color covers; those are available with either lined or unlined pages. Have a look! 
 


    This site is all Celtic art - but it's spun a bit differently. The Saga Shirts t-shirts are black (and, now, in a variety of colors!), and the flavor of the site itself is both dark and a bit playful. "The Tragical Tale of Saga Shirts" describes the curious circumstances that lie behind this online store, as it might have been written by the redheaded stepchild of H.P. Lovecraft and J. Peterman.
    Many of these designs are based on recognizable symbols, like the Biohazard symbol, or the Chaos Star - but within, around, and in fact forming those modern designs are intricate knotwork patterns that live within them. Pretty neat stuff, if you ask me.
 


 The Retropolis Transit Authority - famous throughout the Future That Never Was for keeping its monorails running exactly on time - is happy to present its online shop full of stylish and colorful apparel that's decorated with retro - futuristic designs for Faithful Robots, Mad Geniuses, Retro Rocketeers, Space Cadets, Space Pirates, and Demented Housewives. And they're not so mired in the future that they've forgotten to honor the Art Deco retro past, with a line of retouched futuristic masterpieces from the future's heyday of the 1930s. Black and dark colored shirts a specialty!
 


 "Organizing Against Conformity Since 1903!"

   The Non-Conformists' Union (which, of course, hasn't ever really existed) has a rich and complex history that spans over a century. This site is run by Local 404, the only non-regional chapter of the organization, and it's the home of all itinerant and international Non-Conformists.
   The graphics I've done here for tee shirts, journals, membership items, and coffee mugs are all based, in one way or another, on vintage graphics. But they're remixed with the cheerfully misguided slogans of the NCU, like "Let's All Go on the Road Less Traveled", "Individuals Unite!" or "Organize Against Conformity".
   It's possible that I had just a little too much fun here. There are pages of news and local events and the massive history of the NCU, which is illustrated with family photographs of my vaudevillean great-grandparents.
 


    There are a lot of styles of art that have influenced me over the years - and it does change, of course, over time. But many of these can be gathered together under the heading of vintage graphics.
    At the Retrovert, I've taken many of these older works, which have gradually passed into the public domain, and I've used the same digital tools I use in my own work to restore and revitalize them. Then, with these restored versions, I've made them available as posters, greeting cards, t shirts, and coffee mugs.
    You'll see some great old art deco WPA poster designs, souvenir art from the 1939 New York Worlds' Fair, vintage crate label art, and a fantastic series of magazine covers from the mid 1930s.
    I've also had a bit of fun there with the "I Want Roosevelt Again" campaign - the art's based on actual political campaign art for FDR but I'm trying to elect him again, in spite of both term limits and mortality. Honest. I even issued press releases!

Woodworking Gifts is the home of the "Measure Twice. Cut Once." T-shirt, and Woodworkers' insignias for Wood Carvers, Cabinetmakers, and other woodcrafters - this shop offers creative, original shirts, aprons, coffee mugs, boxes & tiles that make sense to people who work with wood.