I was about to head off to bed, but then I came across this entry on Archie McPhee's blog:

Link New Products for 2009!

Maybe it's just me, or does that fellow on the left seem familiar?

My Diabolical Hot Dog character has been very popular, I can barely keep up with the demand, and the shirt on Threadless.com has done very well and exposed a lot more folks to my work. The one thing I've always wanted to do is to produce a Diabolical Hot Dog figure loaded with weapons and basically, give the people what they want, but being a rather small enterprise, I haven't been able to pull it off yet.

Now, I think the thing that really ticks me off about this, and that is keeping me awake, is that if the folks at McPhee had at least dropped me a line, I'd probably jump at the opportunity to putting out a figure, but they chose to put out a knock off.

Now, I understand that they might not ever have run across my site, but that Threadless shirt has been everywhere, and it isn't too crazy to think that someone at McPhee saw it and was "inspired" by it, but still McPhee, you couldn't call?