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CouchWolf The Region/Indiana and Chicago inspired shirts and designs from the warped mind of a local artist and Region Rat.
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06/01/2026

REGION RAT 219 SHIRTS Locally designed and printed right here in Northwest Indiana. This is one of the first Couch Wolf shirts I designed. I hand lettered 219 for that rat-scratched vibe. Later I swapped out the 219 text to say “Region Rat”, but this OG version still resonates.

Check out these and a bunch of my other Region inspired gear at couchwolfshop.com or venture out into NWI and visit great local shops like, Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaiso, both Region records shops, Highland and Whiting, and Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton.

Thanks for supporting local art made by a real person with a pencil. ❤️🐀

05/30/2026

RIGHT NOW, SATURDAY, MAY 30th, I’m on the sidewalk in front of Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton with a bunch of Northwest Indiana inspired shirts, hats, stickers, and pins…right around the corner from the Chesterton European Market. I’ll be loitering from 8am-2pm…trying to mooch food off anybody who walks past eating something and giving high fives to anyone who says “Ai art isn’t art”.

Can’t make it? Check out all of my other Region inspired gear at couchwolfshop.com or venture out into NWI and visit other great local shops like, Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaiso, both Region records locations, Highland and Whiting.

Thank you for supporting local art made by a real person with a pencil in Northwest Indiana. ❤️🐀

05/29/2026

SATURDAY, MAY 30th, I’ll be on the sidewalk in front of Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton with a bunch of Northwest Indiana inspired shirts, hats, stickers, and pins…right around the corner from the Chesterton's European Market. I’ll be loitering from 8am-2pm…trying to mooch food off anybody who walks past eating something and giving high fives to anyone who says “Ai art isn’t art”.

Can’t make it? Check out all of my other Region inspired gear at couchwolfshop.com or venture out into NWI and visit other great local shops like, Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaiso, both Region records records locations, Highland and Whiting.

Thank you for supporting local art made by a real person with a pencil in Northwest Indiana. ❤️🐀

05/28/2026

Support wildlife migration to the Region. 😂

Sn**ch some Northwest Indiana gear at couchwolfshop.com
…or venture out to great local shops around the Region, like Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaiso, Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton, and both Region records locations, Highland and Whiting.

Thanks for supporting local art by a real person with a pencil in Northwest Indiana. ❤️🐀

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05/27/2026

I had a blast collaborating with Feed the Region on some shirts with the proceeds going towards helping end food insecurity in Northwest Indiana. Every week, Feed the Region provides scratch made, family-sized, delicious meals FOR FREE to anyone who needs one.

It was wonderful collabing with Chef Steph , who runs Feed the Region. Her ideas on community engagement, and neighbors helping neighbors to make the Region a better place inspired the designs of these shirts. I stopped by Feed the Region’s kitchen to drop off the shirts we worked on together while they were preparing this week’s scratch meal. I’m continually in complete awe of the good that they do for this place we all call home.

If you’d like to grab a shirt that helps feed a neighbor in need, or contribute ingredients to a meal, visit feedtheregion.org.

Meals are available at
Nana Clare’s Kitchen
3907 Calumet Ave #106
Valparaiso, IN 46383

If you know of someone in need of a meal, consider bringing them one and checking in on them. Food is love. ❤️🐀

05/26/2026

SHOE CORNER SHIRTS This corner littered with shoes has mystified many since childhood, self-included. It took 50 something hours to get this from a pencil drawing to a finished t-shirt design…but that’s nothing compared to the time of an eternal mystery.

Thank you for supporting local art made by a real person with a pencil in Northwest Indiana. ❤️🐀 And thank you for continually throwing your shoes out the window all these years…whoever you are. 😂

Grab one at couchwolfshop.com, or venture out in the Region and check out all my NWI inspired gear at great local shops like Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaisio, Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton, or both Region records locations, Highland and Whiting.

05/23/2026

RIGHT NOW Saturday, May 23rd, I’m on the sidewalk in front of Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton with a bunch of Northwest Indiana inspired shirts, hats, stickers, and pins…right around the corner from the Chesterton's European Market. I’ll be loitering here from 8am-2pm…watching people struggle to parallel park and giving high fives to anyone who says “Ai art isn’t art”.

Can’t make it? Check out all of my other Region inspired gear at couchwolfshop.com or venture out into NWI and visit other great local shops like, Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaiso, both Region records locations, Highland and Whiting.

Thank you for supporting local art made by a real person with a pencil in Northwest Indiana. ❤️🐀

05/22/2026

SATURDAY, MAY 23rd, I’ll be on the sidewalk in front of Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton with a bunch of Northwest Indiana inspired shirts, hats, stickers, and pins…right around the corner from the Chesterton's European Market. I’ll be loitering from 8am-2pm…watching people struggle to parallel park and giving high fives to anyone who says “Ai art isn’t art”.

Can’t make it? Check out all of my other Region inspired gear at couchwolfshop.com or venture out into NWI and visit other great local shops like, Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaiso, both Region records locations, Highland and Whiting.

Thank you for supporting local art made by a real person with a pencil in Northwest Indiana. ❤️🐀

05/21/2026

Fresh restock at Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe. Shirts, hoodies, stickers, pins, koozies, glassware REGION RATS, RATS, RATS.

You can also check out my Northwest Indiana inspired stuff at Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton, and both locations Region records, Highland and Whiting. Or if you really don’t want to interact with other humans visit couchwolfshop.com

Thank you for supporting local business, and thank you for supporting local art made by an actual person with a pencil. ❤️🐀

05/20/2026

GYPSIES GRAVEYARD SHIRTS I used trespass with my friends here as a teenager. The word of mouth stories handed down to us in high school went something like, In the 1800’s, local townspeople denied aid to and ran off a band of ill Gypsies camping on the out skirts of town. Due to the cruelty of the locals, as they left, the gypsies put a curse on the ground of the area where they had buried their dead, causing the shoes and pant bottoms of the townsfolk and their descendants to become blood soaked upon setting foot there. I can find no historical record of any of this, great Northwest Indiana urban legend though.

Though it’s supposedly a paranormal hotbed, the scariest thing I’ve personally encountered there was other people. 😂

Before designing these shirts, I went back there for the first time in 20+ years, and first time during the day. It’s very serene, secluded, and has really old/ornate tombstones. New to me was a camera and a sign about 24 hour surveillance. Sadly it’s had issues with vandalism over the years. Again, the scariest thing in there is the living.

Check out all my Northwest Indiana inspired stuff at couchwolfshop.com or visit great local shops around the Region like Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe in Valparaiso, Three Wicked Apples in Chesterton and both Region records locations, Highland and Whiting

Thank you for supporting local art made by a real person with a pencil in Northwest Indiana. ❤️🐀

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