Johnny Cupcakes 20th Anniversary Vintage Collection T-Shirts

It’s hard to believe that Johnny Cupcakes, one of The Blot’s favorite indie brands, is celebrating its 20th anniversary!  To celebrate this huge milestone, JC is rebaking some of their favorite (and their customer’s favorite) designs throughout 2021.  While most releases this year will have a special 20 year emblem printed on the back or sleeve, these occasional vintage JC t-shirts will also have this “VINTAGE RECIPE” hem print along with a “rebaked date”.  These small, clean details not only commemorate this epic journey Johnny Cupcakes has been on, but it also separates these rebakes from the original releases.

To kick off the 20 Years of Johnny Cupcakes Celebration, JC has released 3 vintage favorites: the Nintendo inspired “Powermitt 2.0”, the Hook homage “Capn Cook 2.0”, and the Karate Kid “Cobra Kakes 2.0”.  Johnny Cupcakes brought back some heavy hitters with these three pop culture homages!  What classic JC tees are you hoping are rereleased this year!?!

All three Johnny Cupcakes 20th Anniversary Vintage Collection T-Shirts seen here are available now at JohnnyCupcakes.com in mens and womens styles, sizes S-5XL, for $39.99 each.

Johnny Cupcakes x The Karate Kid T-Shirts

A couple of weeks ago Johnny Cupcakes hosted another special screening of an 80’s classic, and this time it was The Karate Kid (which I might add is also another personal favorite of The Blot’s). (link) To commemorate the event JC created a very cool The Karate Kid/Cobra Kai t-shirt entitled "Karate Cakes." The shirt was inspired by The Karate Kid, but was designed after the dreaded Cobra Kai karate dojo. The Blot is a sucker for all things Billy Zabka/Johnny Lawrence, so a shirt sporting the phrase “Sweep The Leg Johnny” is right up my alley.


Johnny Cupcakes made two different versions of Karate Cakes, a highly limited edition version with gold shimmer ink which sold out immediately and the standard edition which is up for sale now at the Johnny Cupcakes online store. The LE gold shimmer ink had a run of just 60 shirts and can be seen in the picture above.


The standard Karate Cakes t-shirt is printed on black with yellow lettering, but it still sports the al important quotes “Sweep The Leg Johnny” and “No Mercy.” They sell for $35.99 and come in both guys and girls sizes. Unfortunately all that’s left is a Guys small, sorry! I was a little late on this post, but I had to talk about these awesome shirts nonetheless.