"Best Friends Forever" © Lucy Knisley

I didn’t plan to go silent for an entire week, but I was on vacation and just didn’t have time to prepare any posts in advance.

I’ve got a handful of cool sightings and submissions that came in while I was offline, and I’ll be focusing on those throughout the week. Stay tuned!

Dark Cycle Clothing is a husband and wife team from Tampa, Florida. Their Etsy shop is bursting with whimsical designs, mostly involving various animals riding bicycles. These include, but are not limited to: sharks, whales, Tyrannosauruses, giraffes, foxes, and, of course, octopuses.

All shirts are American Apparel super soft tees and are available in a wide range of sizes (from XS to XL) for $18.00 each.

The image above links to the Brown version of the shirt, but it is also availalble in Eggplant and Slate Grey. (If any of the links take you to sold out items, just go to the main page for the shop. There will be many others to choose from!)

They also have a design called “Octopus Corporate Man Explosion”…but I’ll save that for another time.

While this shirt isn’t Christmas-themed per se, to many people the impending holidays instills a feeling not unlike the sensation of being charged by a Giant Squid and a Grizzly Bear on a bicycle.

Raptor Bandit Industries is the merchandise arm of The Adventures of Dr McNinja webcomic, and is part of the TopatoCo family of independent creators.

The shirt is $18.50 and is available in men’s and women’s sizes.

Buy it now from TopatoCo.com