$500 Gift Certificate Contest For “Most Friendly Twitter” From Cartoonist Rick London

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TOP GOOGLE OFFBEAT CARTOONIST AND  E-GIFT SHOP OWNER OF LONDONS TIMES CARTOONS & GIFTS  OFFERING $500 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO LUCKY TWITTER WHO CAN PUT HIM AT THE VERY TOP (OF TWITTER)  (If he doesn’t go to “The Twitter Top” he’s still giving a $250 gift certificate to the one who retweets him most)

Dateline: Hot Springs,Ar. March 11, 2009:   Cartoonist E-entreneur Rick London announced today his firm, Rick London Group, LLC., is offering a $500 gift certificate to his award-wining top-ranked offbeat cartoon funny gift stores, if Twitters will put him at the top of Twitter. Making it “to the top” simply means having the most followers. (His user name is “ricklondon”) on Twitter.

London is the founder of Google’s #1 ranked offbeat cartoon, Londons Times.

London’s six award-winning Internet stores feature over 165,000 gift items such as coffee mugs, T-shirts, gourmet coffee gift baskets (his own line of farm-fresh coffee beans with cartoon mugs and coasters, teddy bears, maternity wear, magnets, buttons, jogging suits, caps, aprons, hoodies, shoes, wall and desk clocks, and much more more.

London is also the designer of (Shoes That Amuse) women’s casual sneakers with famous love quotations and graphics of the famous person who penned them, featured recently in USA Today and AP Wire which will also be included in the contest. London adds, “But not to worry, even if I don’t make it to the top, (Obama is there now), so we are also giving a $100 certificate for the most ‘retweets’.

So I really don’t have to be at the top for other Twitters to win. Simply following me and retweeting, and one can still win a $250 gift certificate, easily, without even a drawing. Second most retweets #50 gift certificate.

We simply count the retweets of each Twitter member at the end of the contest. A re-tweet is when another blogger at Twitter copies and pastes your tweet with an “RT” in front of it which stands for “retweet”,  giving the original blogger credit for the post, and, sharing it with , often a whole separate network of followers.

London will allow 120 days for the contest to end, and a name to be drawn at random on his birthday which is July 16th, when the winner will be announced, and paid on August 1 via Paypal or check (winners choice). London plans to print his page of followers, cut the names into squares, place them in a box, and draw one.

London adds, “In addition, we plan to issue a press release, if the winner wishes, including his/her name and web address to the wire services for yet more value to the prizes. Londons says, “There also will be a second prize winner, of a $250 gift certificate. In addition, a $50 second prize for the second most “retweets”.

The gift certificates will be good at all of London’s stores. He founded Londons Times on March 22, 1997, and it has grown to be one of the most visible sites on the Internet, and Google’s #1 ranked offbeat cartoon and gifts since 2005.

He will also add an extra $25 bonus gift certificate if the winner has visited his main superstore site and signs up for his monthly newsletter. His stores include Rick London Special Editions Top-selling funny gifts Rick

LondonWear rare line of funny rock star memorabilia and other novelty gifts

Rick London Collection Huge variety of best-selling funny gift ideas

Londons Times Superstore Londons largest funny gift store and exclusively sells world’s only gourmet coffee cartoon gift basket (Londons Own Line).

Rick London Organics (organic cotton tees) bearing his top-selling cartoon images. Shoes That Amuse (World’s Only Famous Love Quotation Shoes) These are not cartoon products but women’s casual shoes he designs. For more information: contact: info@londonstimes.us

A Londons Times Cartoon

A Londons Times Cartoon

Dogue de Bordeaux Casualwear Launched By Rick Londonwear

Dogue lovers love their dogs. And cartoonist/dog lover Rick London, has made sure that one of his favorite dogs, the Dogue de Bordeaux or French Mastiff (as seen in movies & tv) has been made into a casual fashion line of clothing and gifts using his award-winning cartoons.  It is available in clothing for men, women, and children as tees, tanks, chamisole, hoodies, sweats, and more. Ricklondonwear (www.ricklondonwear.com) is also showcasing gifts with the Dogue such as mousepads, cutting boards, aprons, etc. To see the actual dogue line visit:

http://www.printfection.com/londonstimestees/Dogue-de-Bordeaux/_s_83141

London is also the founder of Londons Times Cartoons, the most visited offbeat cartoon site on the Internet luring over 4.5 million visitors per year. He chooses his most popular images to design into clothes and merchandise. The Dogue is one of his most popular.  His award winning cartoon site can be seen at www.londonstimes.us

If Gary Larson & Truman Capote Had Co-Authored A Novel

Cartoonist e-tailer Rick London (www.ricklondonwear.com) says, “The chances of Truman Capote and Gary Larson ever writing a book are, of course zero…but……..If one uses his or her imagination, one could easily figure out what it would have been call and how the cover would have looked.

In fact London sells a number of gifts and collectibles of “In Cold Milk By Truman Cowpote” (Showing a frightened cow in bed reading the book while sweating) award-winning offbeat cartoon products at his website. One can go directly to the order page of Truman Cowpote tees, baseball jerseys, men’s women’s and children’s tops, totes, mousepads gifts, and collectibles, at:

http://www.printfection.com/londonstimestees/In-Cold-Milk-By-Truman-Cowpote/_s_111490

RickLondonwear.com Announces Sale On Offbeat Thanksgiving Cartoon Gifts, Clothes, & Collectibles

We’ve added numerous offbeat cartoon tees, gifts, aprons, tops for men, women and kids, and other merchandise, all on sale now at Rick Londonwear.

http://www.printfection.com/londonstimestees/THANKSGIVING-CLOTHES-GIFTS-COLLECTIBLES/_s_89292

Arkansas Man Creates Offbeat Cartoon Casual Clothing Line

Press Release

 

October 15, 2008 Contact: Alexa Ferotina

For Immediate Release 501-588-1966 info@londonstimes.us

OffbeatCartoon Designer Fashion Wear Newest Hot Trend

 

 

Cartoonist e-tailer Rick London (www.ricklondonwear.com) sits calmly in his studio office in Hot Springs Ar. He has just invented his own line of offbeat cartoon casual fashion clothing, possibly the world’s first.  Less than a year ago, London created another “world’s first”; gourmet cartoon coffee gift baskets, his own private label coffees including a cartoon mug and cartoon coasters.  He says, “Anyone who gets into a business like this thinking ‘egad, glamour, women, millions of dollars and a private jet, really needs to re-think it,” he laughs.

 

Most of his day is spent either on the phone or computer with his creative and marketing team to create new cartoon designer fashion products such as hoodies, spaghetti strap tops, sweatshirts and tees, and other clothing items for men, women, and children, each featuring one of his 8500 offbeat Londons Times Cartoons. He also creates mousepads, tote bags, coasters, cutting boards and more.

He smiles as he types away on what he says “is a very important email” and adds, “you know how important the cartooning and fashion industry can be, especially in such a unique merge”.

London’s story is an Internet legend in that he started it with nothing but a beat up used clone 386 computer, a phone line, $300, a book called “Internet For Dummies”(he had no knowledge of the Internet), and a stray dog named “Thor” back in 1997 in an abandoned rural Mississippi warehouse.

Nobody would rent to him, he says, because he was in his mid 40’s, couldn’t draw very well (he has a staff of top illustrators who render his concepts in the same way Yves St. Laurent did with fashion), and he says, “Frankly I believe people thought I had a few marbles loose when I told them I was going to go into the cartoon business. Little did I, (or anyone else know) at the time, it would turn into the largest single panel cartoon site on the Internet, a fashion line, my own private label coffee with cartoon mugs and coasters, publishing rights, licensing rights, and open doors to exciting and interesting people I would have otherwise never met”.

London’s main cartoon site, Londons Times Cartoons (www.londonstimes.us) started with twelve cartoons and anywhere from two to ten visitors per day. Today it boasts over 8000 of his original cartoon images and attracts around 4000 visitors per hour and has had 7.8 million+ hits since 2005.

He has also opened a cartoon gift and collectible store, Londons Times Superstore (www.LTSuperstore.com) which showcases 65.000+ items bearing the Londons Times Cartoons images, from key chains to Christmas ornaments to desk and wall clocks to baseball caps. He has also opened several niche stores such as Just Funny Aprons (www.justfunnyaprons.com) , Just Funny Hoodies (www.justfunnyhoodies.com), and (believe it or not) Prozac Wear www.prozacwear.com.

London says, “I battled depression a long time. I think laughing at oneself is the best medicine. No, I don’t think it is a replacement for traditional medical treatment, but it surely helped me along the way until I was able to pull out of it. I know many other writers and artists struggle with the same awful disease. Laughter truly helps keep one positive, dealing with any medical issue, not just depression.”

 

London says, “To me, it is one of those ‘Only In America” stories. I don’t believe all this could have happened anywhere else. Of course I worked very hard to help make it turn into such a business but anyone who has been in business for any length of time also knows how important other people’s efforts are to make it such a phenomenon. I had and have the opportunity now to work with the best illustrators in the world, and I do. I have access to the best distributors, I went back to college at age forty seven, I’m now fifty-three, and all sorts of exciting things are happening.

He adds, “I am super-excited that our group created ‘cartoon designer fashion’ and that the market has accepted it and seems to love it. There’s great irony to it all. I guess my life really didn’t get started , or had a lot of false-starts over the years until this project took a life of its own. It feels good to have a modicum of control over my life’s goals. I get to make decisions, create clothing designs and my own cartoons, create jobs, and other things I’ve always wanted to do. If I can do it, surely anyone can with persistence and a little bit of talent.

 

 

Rare Funny Dire Straits Parody Cartoon Collectible Clothes/Merchandise Emerge

Cartoonist E-taile Rick London says he has added one of his earliest cartoons to his popular Rick Londonwear store “Money 4 Nothin’ & The Chicks 4 Free”.

The popular Dire Straits gifts and collectibles are available on T-shirts, mousepads, jerseys, sweats, hoodies, aprons, coasters and much more.

They can be seen at:

http://www.printfection.com/londonstimestees/Dire-Straits/_s_96452

at his www.ricklondonwear.com along with many other funny collectibles, many in the classic rock genre including The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead and more.