THE SCALLYWAG MANIFESTO
OBVIOUS IN
RETROSPECT.
We make shirts for the moment you look up and think, “Surely somebody else is seeing this.”
PUNCH UP. THINK TWICE.
Institutions, bad ideas, bureaucracy, and the magnificent human capacity to miss the point: there’s plenty to work with. Satire should open a conversation. Cruelty is a different product.
THE JOKE IS ON THE SHIRT.
Scallywag Media Inc. is an independent media and e-commerce company in Los Angeles. These are original Scallywag designs on Next Level tees, made for anyone with a working sense of irony.
ABOUT THIS LAST RUN.
We have remaining shirts from the original collection. We have counted them by design and size; available sizes reflect that remaining stock. There is no invented deadline, no resetting timer, and no claim that a size is nearly gone until the count says so.
The new artwork below the collection is a look ahead, not a promise of inventory. For now: give the shirts we already made a life outside the bag.
FIND YOUR SECOND THOUGHT ↗THE LAST RUN / THE WHOLE STORY
Why we're closing out the run
In 2020 we printed a few boxes of shirts that said what everyone was thinking. "Well America, it was a good run." "Is this real life?" "Who censors the censors?" "Welcome to World 2.0." We also made an orange soda with a bad attitude. The soda sold out in a few months. The shirts did not.
Six years later the shirts are still true, still funny, and still in a bag in a closet in Van Nuys. Meanwhile the store that sold them cost more per month than it earned per year, so we built our own: no platform, no subscription, no algorithm. Just shirts and a checkout.
We are not reprinting these. The number next to each size is the actual number in the bag. When it says 2, there are 2. When it's gone, it's gone, and whatever is left on January 30 goes to a thrift shop, where it will confuse someone in 2031.
After that, new designs, printed one at a time, only when someone orders one. Which, in retrospect, is how we should have done it the first time.