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that would be wonderful

In my Ephemera gallery, I have this image:

World Full of Weirdos

I scanned it years ago from the magazine Strange Things Are Happening, which was a short-lived publication from Phil Smee’s insanely great Bam Caruso record label. It was attached to an article about early SoCal punks The Weirdos. It never actually said if it was one of their flyers or posters.

Since Francky, Ellen and Linda want a better quality version of it, there’s the 300 dpi PNG linked above, plus a couple of vectorized versions I produced: World Full of Weirdos (PDF), World Full of Weirdos (EPS).

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6 Responses to “that would be wonderful”

  1. planettom Says:
    August 1st, 2007 at 10:27:35
    What year approximately was this article?

    When I was in college, around 1986, I had a t-shirt with this image on it, purchased at the Junkman’s Daughter’s Brother store in Athens, Georgia.

    I always wondered where the image came from. I guess what I’m wondering is, did it really originate with that article, or did the magazine take the image from elsewhere?

  2. scruss Says:
    August 2nd, 2007 at 06:53:42
    Strange Things Are Happening ran from 1988-90, so the magazine wasn’t the original publisher.
  3. » "Think of it, Ellen -- a world full of WEIRDOS!" » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century Says:
    August 17th, 2007 at 11:40:53
    [...] me thinking about that time and what was then my favourite t-shirt. A little Googling led to me to this entry in the blog We Saw a Chicken, whose author had scanned the image from the magazine Strange Things are [...]
  4. Sluggo Says:
    September 5th, 2007 at 22:05:36
    A friend gave me a t-shirt with that image on it back in the 80’s. He bought it in Toronto, Canada. I still have the shirt and only wear it on special occasions so it does not wear out. Maybe I can be buried with it on if I live to be 80+ years old. I must say, the world would definitely be a happier place if it were “a world full of wierdos”.
  5. James Edge Says:
    November 27th, 2007 at 23:56:26
    I printed and sold that T-shirt to Junkman’s Daughter. Wasn’t there also The Junkman’s Daughter’s Brother across the street? For years I printed Punk T-shirts under the moniker The Razor’s Edge. The image was designed by two of the Weirdos, Cliff Roman and Dave Trout, for “the” Weirdos calendar 1978. Check out page 98 in “Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement”. Interesting Sluggo, ’cause another best selling T of mine was “Punk Meal” with Nancy and Sluggo of Ernie Bushmiller fame. Trust me, wherever you got your Weirdos shirt, they were sellin’ “Punk Meal”. Hope you owned one. That Weirdos sentiment spoke to many of us back then. Thanks for wearing ‘em.
  6. 'As you know' Bob Says:
    February 2nd, 2008 at 13:30:12
    Thanks for this. I had one around 1982. The best part was, a pal of mine was MARRIED to a woman named Ellen. I wound up having to give him a shirt just to shut him up.

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