CafePress.com

A friend of mine introduced me to Cafepress.com and I was wondering how many of you use this site to sell some of your illustrations.

And about how much do you make a month on your products.

I wanted to set a shop for DC t-shirts there, but it looks like the t-shirts will be very expensive (even without any profit). I would be interested to hear of any experiences of actual use of their services.

Spreadshirt is another option.

Either way, it's a slow hustle unless your work and ideas are REALLY good and worth selling to the picky teenage market (majority buyers for novelty shirts).

I have used both spreadshirt and cafepress, and overall I prefer the cafepress experience. Last year I was offered a free premium membership on cafepress for a year, so I took it and set up a store. I had left it alone for a few months until today, when I logged in and realized that I made $30 in the last two months.

Long story short: You need to come up with a REALLY creative idea, in my case it is my very old "Pirates Stole My Homework" design that is selling, and because of this I have decided to revamp the design and offer some similar products.

It's also good to know that Cafepress now offers dark t-shirts now (black and maroon). I just hope they get brown soon.