What started as a series of movie night invites designed by a particularly silly cat person has evolved into a full-blown tshirt brand! Back in 2015, founder and digital artist Benny decided to create over-the-top illustrated invites for his over-the-top movie nights with his friends. These invites were only seen by a few however, and didn't see much life beyond that despite the effort of their creation.

One afternoon, upon showing these invites to Alonso, a barista at our favorite local coffee shop, Alonso suggested these illustrations should be used beyond a one-time invite seen by a few people, and mentioned tshirts would be an ideal platform. After a few sips of coffee and a nod with a raised right eyebrow, SillyFactorNine was born!

No ordinary tshirts would do though. Let's face it, the humorous tshirt market is very crowded, especially (and rightly so) with imagery featuring cats. We realized our shirts would need to be of the highest quality and done the hard way. We decided on the all-over-print approach, meaning the shirt viewed from front or back reads as a single image across shirt panels. This is actually a bit tricky to pull off (and not cheap from a production standpoint), but after seeing the superb results we knew this is the only way for our silly cats to be presented.

Despite the supreme silliness of our cats, the final product we feel is actually rather sophisticated and elegant. We hope you'll agree, and moreover we'd love for you to share pictures of yourselves wearing our shirts on our instagram page!