Make Godzilla green with envy with this shout out to his nemesis!
Let Godzilla set the city on fire, he cannot do poo about your snappy attire! Promoting the Oh-so-Hip Mothra...and in turn, all Mothra Mothers.
This shirt is flame resistant, just in case though.

The design could look really sharp on a variety of colors, so feel free to make suggestions. We also would consider a small upper back print of Mothra art only.
Let Godzilla rampage and trample...

Word to YOUR Mothra,
- get a clue design

haha

your design company name isn't very marketable, you might about changing it :)

this is great, you should incorporate the fairy twins at the bottom in the design as well.

OMFG.

I LOVE MOTHRA.


$5

take off 'word to your', then it's a $4. it's great apart from the random text in white.

howdy all...thx for all the good feedback. to reply to the above:
the "random text" was intended to act as if Mothra was saying the "word to your" text, plus, without that text, the play on words is...well, GONE.

Thanks again, very cool to be in the running with some other great designs!

Freakin Shweet design dude! GJ!

Great design, great play on words, thos twins down in the bottom corner of the shirt would be funny, but hey it's not my design sooooooooo. Anyway, I'm with Radimus Prime on this one.

oops, I left to "e" off of the word "those", my bad, lol

some of these comments remind me of something dad used to say: opinions are like assholes. everybody has one.

nice work. this will make a great shirt. and as far as your company's name not being marketable? i already but a boot in that kid's mouth.

Hey Pfah, doesn't the rest of that saying go something like, "and they all smell like roses" ? by the way this is Eric P.

so.... pfah and get a clue design are the same guys and/or related.

i love this

he's my brother. give him a nice vote please. i know where you live.

yeah take off 'word to your"

what's up eric p? i'll see you soon. i know where you live too. ha!

I'm diggin the nice bonnett you have on pfah.

thanks! it's me wife's over-the-shoulder boulder holder.

can't stand it.

dear jolly brewer: awesome constructive criticism.

$5- but you'd have to print it on the entire shirt. It would make a great all-over design. That little box is too small.

Very cool. Great nod to a retro classic.
Pfah: not sure that pink is your color :)

This T rocks like Tokyo when this foo and 'Zilla were duking it out! Great concept, great design! I will buy it if you have sleeveless, I'm a fan of the gun show.. Your site is great too, keep up the good work.

Personally, I would wear it. the design has very "nerdy" aspects but comes across in a very funny way. nice job on this.

Fedex pee: You nailed the intention, good job & thx for the positive!

Haha!

Oh, I just noticed the singing twins, and the awesomeness exploded.

What you said 'bout my mothra ? Don't be talkin' #$!! 'bout my mothra !! Cool design !!

oh, I love this.

Yeah, even without putting the twins on the template, this would be a 5$ ... with them, its completely out of hand. I want. I want now.

This is pfat! Let me know when you get the UltraMan mittens designed.

cool tee! great colors, original design. Id be caught dead in it any day.
-Sure beats getting caught in hell in a gasoline storm-

I'd buy this for my husband, he'd love it. $5

I love the design, but I really just think white tees look cheap. I think it would look nice on a pale lime or pale yellow. Even cream or natural would be nice.

Me likee colors. I agree, white was a "quick fix" to get this posted. Dark brown looked downright yummy, but I had already done the deal, so I guess we can hope threadless puts it on some colors...

Duuuuuuude, this is coolness.... If i can get this in a sky blue, I will totally wear it with my Supey Underoos!

The ToHo Film Co. has made a reputation of being EXTREMELY letigeous in regard to their monster properties.

I would buy this hard core

Too busy.

Crud, Seamus... Yer makin me think twice about my Megalon Story Short shirt design....

Will the sequel shirt be "3 heads are better than one" starring King Ghidorah?

cool tee! Very old school get-a-clue design.you know I love those colors! But a different colored background would be nice, too. By the way, Marco(pfah), are you doing a little "weird science" at home? This is Sarah.

i would get at least two of these

I love this!

I second the vote for a cream or neutral colored shirt with this design.

I hope Mothra does not eat the shirt..

Super Slothman:

Found on-line "Googling" the words "litigious" & "ToHo"...

What's in a Name?
These days, the answer to the above question usually is "a previously trademarked product or service." The latest bands in town to suffer the wrath of corporate lawyers are Hotwheels Jr. and the Godzilla Motor Company. The latter were contacted by the notoriously litigious Toho company, owners of the enormous lizard of the same name, and while publicist Tammy Blevins says the attorneys "were actually pretty cool" about the matter, allowing the band six months to alter their Web site and make other such adjustments, she admits that she didn't tell them the group would simply be changing their moniker to Gähdzilla Motor Company. "You can't trademark the sound of a name," she explains. The Mattel toymakers, meanwhile, took six years to finally notice the Hotwheels Jr. people, most likely because of a recently acquired Web domain name. "A week later and the CDs would have been sent out to be pressed!" says a Adam Farina, who is instead sending off materials for the new Blackbelt disc under the group's new name, the Action 15. Say, wasn't that the name of Hasbro's original G.I. Joe and Friends line?

Dear MC gab-a-lot:

We are all impressed that you failed the bar exam again...can we get back to not talking so McMuch? The 17th is when drunken ramblings are acceptable, this is not a personal stump, this is a disco...no, wait, this is THREADLESS, yeah, that's it.

Love it & my 11 year old son liked Mothra - I had to explain the "word to your" part...he's too young...we want it!

mmcclernan: you could spend your downtime from Googling and design a Word To Super Slothman shirt -- I'd wear that for sure!

Nice work dude, I hope they print this so I can buy one.

hey mmcclernan family: golly! aren't you a couple of research wiz kids?!? i did a little research myself. ON YOU. aside from a few random pictures, here's what immediately floated to the surface:

this is your bio on Threadless:
Maria McClernan is a 36.67 year old girl, has been a member since November 24, 2006, has scored 2965 submissions, giving an average score of 1.44

and, after using my amazing powers of deductive reasoning, i discovered that you are married to none other than Seamus McClernan. odd, since he's the original post regarding the copyright issues of Mothra. Are the two of you THAT bored at home?

here's your husband's bio on Threadless:
Seamus McClernan is a 41.49 year old boy, has been a member since April 23, 2005, has scored 2198 submissions, giving an average score of 2.47.

one thing i noticed about both of your pages here on Threadless is that neither of you have any design submissions. granted, i currently don't either, but i have been a member for about A WEEK. you two have been members for a couple years. and that leads me to believe neither of you have an artistic bone in your bodies. which makes me wonder: "why, oh why, would two people decide to make their opinion on something they know NOTHING about, known? i mean, combined, the two of you have reviewed/scored just under 5,000 design submissions on here. (and here's the kicker) with a combined scoring of about 1.86 (forgive me if i am off by a few digits. i am a right-brainer).

speaking as an artist, if i poured my creativity into a design and then had it voted on as low as the two of you vote, i'd be bummed. granted, i'd still like what i did and be proud of it. and so would many, many other people on this site. because i am good at what i do. at least i CREATED something. oh wait. you've both created something too. a couple of blogs. nice work. real original.

here's a challenge. why don't you two come up with a design together, and submit it? i promise to vote honestly about my reaction to it, and not vote on the design through a drunken Bushmills haze. Which would explain why the two of you have such a low average on scoring the work of others.

happy Lá Fhéile Pádraig you two. stick to the books.

awesome. $5

I don't know who produces more wind Mothra or PFAH?

Good work rendering the mothra dude, and I like the colors. Though, there seems to be an over abunandance of design cliches (splatters, targets, floral embellishments, kanjii?) that I could do well without. It's too much, man! 3

p.s., pfah Your resoning is saying that non-artists can't come to this site to give their opinions on what they think looks good. Which is total crap. Without non-artists, artists would not even exist...who would buy our work? Besides, this is a t-shirt purchasing website before it is an Artist's Only club.

Loosen up a bit, will ya?

Thanks mezo, preesh the points you shared. I did try a "cleaner" design, but it just came off looking like mothra was lonely and needed some cliches...delicious, yummy cliches.
Yes, there IS kanji on there as well, just to hit every asian monster cliche.
For the record, I preesh pfah's words, threadless is a great community of like minded folk, it just seems some are stuck on blabbing instead of scoring and moving on to the next.
thanks again.

p.s. for the record, the cliches are mothra inspired: insect-like lines (floral/antenna), targets (conjures up war, fighting, etc.), and mothra splatter, eww. and kanji? nuff said.

Fine. But I still think you have TOO MANY things going on in the background. It draws attentiona away from the mothra itself, who should be the star of the show.

And I don't know what this 'preesh' means. But I should stop blabbing and move on to the next.

preesh; webster (the 80's child star) defines as: shortened form of 'appreciate'. normally spoken by old hipsters.
thanks again (or 'preesh') for the opinions mezo, nice design work btw.

dear mezo...
you said "without non-artists, artists wouldn't even exist". after typing a comment like that, you've got the nerve to call my opinion "total crap"? pUHlease. don't get me wrong, non-artists are valuable to the art community, but the art we artists create is totally NOT dependent on them alone. other artists support art more than non-artists do. we'd exist regardless if a non-artist ever stepped foot inside a gallery, museum or bought a tshirt. and i understand that this is a public website that anyone can access and leave commentary, but have read some of the opinions of non-artists? they are rediculous. their homes are probably full of wal-mart art and faux paintings that have been printed instead of actually painted. you're an artist (and a pretty damn good one if i don't say so myself) so you should understand the point i am making here. you keep up the great work and actual artists who truly appreciate solid design will buy it. it makes it mean more that way. and yeah, if a few non-artists buy it too, that's all the better. taking people's money is never a bad thing.
yours in design...
pfah

pfah: "you two have been members for a couple years. and that leads me to believe neither of you have an artistic bone in your bodies. which makes me wonder: "why, oh why, would two people decide to make their opinion on something they know NOTHING about, known?"

There are alot of people on Ol' Threadless who find it exciting to google. I've had a few experiences with the whole "your design resembles the one in the 1998 issue of this Japanese magazine that no one's ever heard of and you're a douche for copying it" comments. Trust me, that's not why I'm a douche and I don't copy artwork, but it seems that the most hateful comments come from submissionless accounts.

Three Theories
1. These are alternate accounts that people use to side-step any retaliation against their own comments.
2. They aren't artists and are jealous of other people's abilities to produce interesting designs.
3. They are snotty twelve-year-olds who get beat up at school and use Threadless as a venue to prove that they are truly Level 60 Dark Elves and have a +9 Submission-Slaying knife.

pfah - Excuse me but I buy all my art at Target not Wal-mart!

get a clue!

Mezo's style is not busy, get a clue would probably advise her to add more to her work. I think the extras show the chaos and panic Mothra causes.

Oooh, getaclue! I was reading 'preesh' like it looks: like short for precious....preesh-us? Which is why I got confused.

pfah. You are very long winded. My main point is that this website is here for ALL shirt wearers....artists or not. To disregard someone's opinion on a shirt design, who are not designers themselves, is rude and ignorant.

all i ever wanted was for mothra to be loved.

mezo:
there's a good chance i am long-winded. but i am also right. and i am not "disregarding" a non-designers opinion, i am saying that it doesn't weigh as heavily as an actual artists' opinion should. and two things that i am NOT are "rude" and "ignorant".

have a nice weekend.

YES.

This is awesome.
Mothra is god.

$5

other than the design looking too boxy -this is kickass!

I know the text is the point of the shirt, but it's lame. I think it would be better with just the moth above the city.

hahaha!!
Mothra!
yay =)
$5

What a wonderful world it would be if we could just ban: Text on T shirts, copyrights, Googling, busy designs, long-windedness, lame jokes on T shirts, and the ultimate of lame: the Scraggly Beard. (Ahem.)

Super Slothmeester:
That there is a REAL beard, something I don't expect a sloth to be able to produce, being they too lazy to do much besides writing slogans. BTW, "The Scraggly Beard " is already copywrited by a Portland Oregon band...you know how they love those beards out there.

Dear Mr. "pfah",

The point that my dearest Wife was trying to make (and providing evidence for) was that a Submission like the one above would most likely cause Threadless.com problems - and why would anyone want that?

I've already heard from an Editor friend that an image of Godzilla among a group of monsters in a single panel of last week's "Mighty Avengers #1" has aroused ToHo's ire.

As to WHY neither of us have made any Submissions ourselves?
Where do you suggest we find the time?
What do you know of us? Or our schedules?
My Maria has a successful career in Real Estate and I'm in currently transitioning from the Music Business to Film making.
(Be sure to catch dear family friend Maria Doyle-Kennedy in "The Tudors" on Showtime!)

You failed to notice that our two oldest children also enjoy Scoring designs on Threadless.

My son Quinn (a 2nd degree Purple-belt) is already being courted by both Warner Brothers and Island Records.

In the past, I've had Art Directors ask my opinion on CD sleeve work, and several bands have used my suggestions in regard to their collective naming.

We are an extremely creative family.

May we be allowed to enjoy Threadless in our own manner?

I've looked at this again and would like to withdraw my constructive criticism. It is much more complex than I first saw, and I must have been in a very dismissive mood when I wrote that.

Anyway, I'm not overly keen on this style of design, but I do actually like this now. It's a good piece of Illustration.

Thanks Jolly, that was nice man.
Hooray Beer!...and good design.

For the record, Seamus:
I think it may be up to Threadless to decide what they will or will not publish. I appreciate the comments, but truly...unless Threadless has you on retainer, why the worries? Life it too short to wonder or write about (at some length btw, ironic for someone so busy) who may or may not sue or not sue. Obviously you are informed, but I've seen submissions that should be sued for bad taste/design alone.

In the end, this design created dialogue with folks who without it would have never shared thoughts, etc. So I guess sue my Mothra lovin' butt for that.

Again, thanks...I do mean that btw.

GJ! That's a good first score!

Thanks Radius...my last 2 designs have drowned quicker than a boulder tied to a hip Threadless T shirt.

Keep tryin i guess

It's a big fat hairy bummer when that happens.

How do I go about actually BUYING one of these things?

It speaks to me...I absolutely LOVE Mothra. I spend the last 15 minutes looking for a decent t-shirt depicting Mothra in a non-violent manner DEVOID of any mention to Godzilla. This isn't about Godzilla, this is about the history of Mothra BEYOND cheap Japanese claymation, this is about the spirit of Mothra, the protector of Humans!!!
LONG LIVE MOTHRA!!!