Post #633 by Trader Woody on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 3:13 AM

Is Shag stretching himself a bit thin these days? I seems every time I look up
there's a new piece of Shag merchandise, and its starting to feel a little like overkill.

A lot of the stuff he's been involved in is novel and well thought out (the Tiki mugs,
bar stools, and the new Aloha shirts for instance), but there seems to be a lot of
instances where bits of images from Shag paintings are just slapped on any old
gee-gaw and sold at a high price. (I'm thinking of pens, coffee mugs, that awful
Tiki drinks book,that weird bar sugar, and a never ending collection of stickers & postcards).

While I understand that there is a huge demand for Shag's stuff, and we can't
all own the limited edition prints etc, but there seems to be so much merch coming out each
month that the images themselves are looking tired.

Trader Woody