The Sadboy print shop in Dallas, automatic screen printing press and racks of screens
OUR STORY

Built from loss. Built for change.

JANUARY 16, 2022

Sadboy started with a loss.

On January 16, 2022, Chris Babb lost his best friend.

Christopher Barkley was brilliant, driven, and deeply loved. And like so many men, he carried things quietly.

Babb is an artist. What came out of that year was drawings. Sadboy is what happened when we decided to put them on shirts instead of leaving them in a sketchbook.

An empty office at night with a city skyline behind it

Mental health does not show up on a resume.

It does not care how accomplished you are or how much people love you. And for men, the world has never made it easy to say anything out loud.
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT

Art, apparel, and a conversation worth having.

Every piece starts as original art from Babb, printed by hand in our Dallas studio, made in limited runs.

A shirt gets noticed. Someone asks about it. That question is the whole point. The art does the opening, you do the rest.

10% of every order goes to the Christopher Barkley Foundation. Not eventually. Not sometimes. Every order.

Why it matters.

1 in 3

Men will experience depression, anxiety, or a mental health condition in their lifetime. Most keep it to themselves.

4x

Men die by suicide at nearly four times the rate of women. Silence costs us people.

1 conversation

Is sometimes all it takes. Start it.

Sadboy tees hanging on a rack under a single light

Buy a shirt. Do some good.

Wear it. Start it. Change it.
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