Oktoberfest Tshirts

Oktoberfest Grab Sausage Tshirt

Kind of a report with some updates.  I am going to focus on creating some new shirt designs.

Long time readers may remember this shirt but given it is a top seller at the store, it is one I like to highlight each year.   This is the first t-shirt I ever designed for the store:  it depicts a guy in lederhosen carrying a large sausage.  The back say’s “Grab your Sausage and Have Fun”.

Why highlight an Oktoberfest shirt the end of August?  Well, while Munich Germany’s Oktoberfest actually runs into October (Sept 22 – October 7), Cincinnati celebrates it towards the end of September (the 21st and 22nd) and Covington, KY (right across the river from Cincinnati) celebrates September 7-9

Quick trivial facts.  Cincinnati has the largest Oktoberfest celebration in the United States.  Several years ago an astute commenter indicated that it was Canada that held the distinction of the largest outside of Germany.  However, he is wrong according to my spot Wikipedia sources.  The largest celebration outside Germany is in Blumenau, BRAZIL!  But here is where Cincinnati gets back some of it’s swagger.  Estimates for the Canadian and Brazilian Oktoberfest are in the 700,000’s.  However each lasts about a week.  Cincinnati pulls in around 500,000 people in just 2 days.  Now who drinks more?

More designs created over the years:

Click image to go to page.   I need to work on a few new designs for this year.

Comments

55 responses to “Oktoberfest Tshirts”

  1. walker Avatar

    ha, ha… I like it!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Heeeeeellllllllllllooooooo Walker. Long time. Good to see you.

  2. Comedy Plus Avatar

    Bwahahahahaha. I love that shirt. Wonder if I’m brave enough to wear it though.

    Have a terrific day. 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Only one way to find out. haha

  3. Tim Green Avatar

    Love Oktoberfest! Fun designs!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Do vampires drink??? Beer I mean.

      1. Androgoth Avatar

        Yes and lager too 🙂 lol

        Androgoth

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I would have gone for the Bloody Mary joke hahah

  4. Androgoth Avatar

    He certainly shows off with that
    humongous sausage Bearman 🙂 lol

    Have a great evening…

    Androgoth

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Goth.

  5. Red Avatar
    Red

    I am going to be wearing my Martian Ale shirt!! WooHoo! I love pressies in the letter box! Thank you, Bearman!
    Red.

    1. Red Avatar

      For some reason…my addy was left off…weird.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Your address was left off? How did it arrive then??

        1. Red Avatar

          I have a psychic connection at the post.

  6. Sheila Deeth Avatar

    Okay, so October doesn’t have to be in October. Now I get it.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      No October has to be in October. But Oktoberfest does not. haha

  7. lisleman Avatar

    Based on my one evening in the Munich Oktoberfest I think you could replace that sausage with the other very popular food items – chicken or pretzels. Grab your pretzel sounds fun.
    http://afcsoac.blogspot.com/2009/09/oktoberfest-beer-food-fun.html

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But it doesn’t look as phallic.

  8. Deb Avatar

    That’s a great shirt, Bearman. 😉

  9. Binky Avatar

    The important thing is that is doesn’t clash with Wombat Day, which is October 22.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I’m sure there is chocolate and winegums galor. Anything else?

      1. Binky Avatar

        A Wombat Day Cake, of course! http://www.wombania.com/wombat-day-cake.htm
        And it’s not made out of wombats!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          How could I forget.

          1. Binky Avatar

            Perhaps I haven’t been reminding you enough.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Perhaps. Next time invite me.

  10. Friggin Loon Avatar

    in some cases it is grab your wiener!!!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I originally had wienerschnitzel but realized that wasn’t a sausage.

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        I have a sneaking suspicion we had the exact conversation last year 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          2 years ago. I didn’t post it last year. haha

  11. coasterbear Avatar
    coasterbear

    Since the end of the year is “The Most Wonderful TIme” of the year, does that make Octoberfest the “Wurst” time?

    Having been to the “world breaking, record-holding largest-at-one-time” Chicken Dance, I can verify it does indeed qualify as wurst…..

    Hmmm, does the largest chicken dance qualify it as one of the largest cock fights???

    I could go on……….

    1. Bearman Avatar

      You need to go through Mt Lookout. There has been a sign for a new hotdog place up for the last 6 months that says “Prepare for the Wurst” Wurst case scenario is that place will never open…geez talk about shooting off at the mouth too early.

      BTW since you are into puns…

      If you go to an Oktoberfest celebration and only men showed up, could you legitimately call it a “Sausage Fest”?

    1. Bearman Avatar
  12. SpilledInkGuy Avatar

    Wait… it’s August?
    🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      For a few more days. I figure you knew that because your wife wouldn’t let you forget her birthday.

  13. Jack of Gulls Comic Avatar

    With enough alcohol all these shirts could happen. Then your arrested and into the drunk tank.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Do they have a “drunk tank” anymore?

  14. DadaHyena Avatar

    Quit showing off your wiener and jugs in public, Bearman! Duh hyuck hyuck hyuck a-durrrrrr!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But it’s what everyone wants.

  15. Mark Stokes Avatar

    Great designs and color, Bearman!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Mark…I need to do more.

  16. Tony McGurk Avatar

    Ha!!! Those Germans & their big sausages. Guess that’s why they lost the war, the extra weight slowed their soldiers down. Imagine the size of their army ration packs???

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I just thought they carried the entire pig.

  17. starla Avatar
    starla

    Fun designs 500,000 people in two days that is a busy event.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I don’t mind the crowds so much when I am there…it is getting there.

  18. George Avatar

    You are the King of the One-Shot. I have to prattle on and on to make someone laugh. Why else do you thin my comics are soooo loooong? 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      In and out like rabbits mating that’s my motto. Well one of them anyway.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Tony!

  19. J-Dotson Avatar

    Love the shirts…

  20. Tyler Avatar

    Everything is right with Oktoberfest. I will be sure to have a great time with my sausage.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      HOpefully not by yourself..haha