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Ten plates drawn for The Maneki Neko Death Cult — the beckoning cat, its face coming apart into signal, and the seal that closes every episode. Traced to vector, cut to a single ink, and measured against the press that has to hold it.
All of it is sold at cost. Every page shows what the printer charges, what the card fee takes, and what shipping runs — then sells it to you for exactly that. The studio makes nothing on a shirt unless you decide it should.
Printed when you order it · Ships worldwide · No warehouse, no dead stock
Why this shop is built backwards
“You’re maybe buying a little anti-machine feeling off me right now, and it’s real, and it’s also merch, and I can’t fully untangle the two, and the only honest thing I can do is what I’m doing: tell you it’s a rail, and let you check your own jacket.”
The Maneki Neko Death Cult · Door 14
Twenty-four doors of a show about the line between a signal and its merch, and then a merch table. There is no version of that which isn’t funny. So the table is built to survive the joke: the arithmetic goes on the page, the price is the arithmetic, and the studio takes nothing.
“I’ll try to keep the actual cost in it. It’s the only way I know to stay a truth and not a T-shirt.” Door 13 said it first. This is that, done literally — the cost is kept in, printed out, and handed to you before you buy.
When the storefront opens, paying the studio anything at all will be a separate button on every product page, for any amount you like. It will never be folded into the price of a garment, because a markup you can’t see is exactly the thing the book is about.
10 designs
The beckoning cat with its face coming apart into signal, and the seal that closes every episode. Ten plates, traced to vector and cut to a single ink.
Pick a design — every garment and sticker it prints on is on its page.
24 designs
An advent calendar of death, worn. One souvenir tee per door — a face-free cyberpunk emblem from each, over a place and a year, in the one-ink style of the cyberpunk cat.
Pick a design — every garment and sticker it prints on is on its page.
19 designs
The fictional brands the studio's books invented — Mercer's mayo, PRISM, the Death Cult seal, MW9 — each an in-world logo rebuilt one-ink cyberpunk, credited to the book it came from.
Pick a design — every garment and sticker it prints on is on its page.
5 designs
Five 70s-groovy studio tees — the ship, the creed, and the war on beige, full colour on black.
Pick a design — every garment and sticker it prints on is on its page.
5 designs
Deathrock studio tees — bone-white filigree and blood red on black. The ship, the creed, and the war on beige, in mourning.
Pick a design — every garment and sticker it prints on is on its page.
5 designs
Machine-shop studio tees — steel, rivets and hazard-yellow stencil on black.
Pick a design — every garment and sticker it prints on is on its page.
5 designs
DIY xerox studio tees — ransom-note collage and hot-pink spray on black.
Pick a design — every garment and sticker it prints on is on its page.
03 — How it ships
Nothing is made until someone orders it. No warehouse, no minimum run, no box of unsold larges under a desk.
This page is a catalogue. Buying hands you to the print partner, who takes the payment, prints the garment, and ships it.
Wrong size, damaged in transit, lost by the courier — the printer owns it. Their support desk, their replacement.
Art from the album Signal Finds Signal · Twenty-four doors · Mind the beige
