Three more painted family comics from real life. All bone themed! (toddlers are very interested in skeletons)

A Soppy Story

This is my follow up book to Soppy. If you haven’t already guessed, it’s all about me and Luke and having our first baby together. Lots of moments from my real life, pregnancy, childbirth and looking after a newborn.

Published in North America by Andrews McMeel. Published in the UK by Square Peg.

Release date is 16th January 2020 so pre-order now

Order in the UK from: Page 45, Waterstones, Amazon

Order in the US from: IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon

an Alien Who is Also a Mum is my 16 page comic about parenting small children whilst also being a collection of alien parasites living in the body of a human woman.

I made this comic ihttps://app.gumroad.com/philipparice n 2021 to be part of Short Box digital comics fair during the month of October.

I have made it available as a pdf on Gumroad if you would like to read it https://app.gumroad.com/philipparice

Some auto-bio comics I’ve been making about my family. I’ve been using goauche paints for these. In my Soppy comics I used just two colours, red and black, but I decided I need to use a lot more colours to record some of these family moments.

These have appeared in Mutha Magazine

Some of my lino prints

1st February 2023. I made these comics about my day, every hour that I was awake (more or less!)

I used Micron pens and watercolour paints. Drew straight ahead (no pencil) and cut the paintings out, using collage for the speech bubbles. This is a quick way to get colourful pictures for hourly comics.

Some of these have appeared in Mutha Magazine.

These comics follow on from the comics in my books SOPPY and BABY: a Soppy Story. They’re from my real life with a toddler and two twin babies.

Soppy - This is the book full of all the Soppy comics plus loads more that you've never seen. It's 112 pages long.

Published in North America by Andrews McMeel. Published in the UK by Square Peg.

Order in the US from:

IndieBound

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Order in the UK from:

Page 45

Waterstones

Amazon

A collection of short and long comics about me and my sister!

Available now:

In the U.S.  Barnes & Noble  Amazon  Indie Bound  BAM! 

In the U.K. Waterstones  Foyles  Amazon

144 pages long, hardback.

Published by Andrews McMeel

Sister BFFs follows a pair of sisters who are not quite adults, but trying desperately to act like them. From job searches to embarrassing encounters with former crushes, these twenty-something sisters navigate the ups, downs, and in-betweens of early adulthood – together. Loosely based on the author’s own life, Sister BFFs celebrates the complicated love-hate relationship between sisters to hilarious effect.  They tease and trick each other but always stay loyal.

Some small ink drawings of my daughter

This comic was included in the Google Doodle for International Women's Day 2018 along with comics by eleven other artists.

Guided journal based on my book SOPPY.

192 pages long. A diary for two people to document their lives and relationship together.

Published by Andrews McMeel

Order from: IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, BAM! Amazon.co.uk

1st February 2021, a comic for each hour of the day. It’s a miracle that I was able to compete these this year because with a three year old and twin 11 month old babies, during a global pandemic and under full lockdown, it was a hectic situation. Luckily it was actually a pretty laid-back day and I did find space to make them.

These models are made of Sculpey and then painted with acrylic paint and varnished. I often sell these at comic shows.

Hourly Comic Day is where you draw a comic for every hour you're awake on February 1st. Here's what I managed for 2018. Not every hour I was awake, but every hour my baby Robin was awake that day so that's something!

Animated videos made with Luke Pearson.

Here's the Soft Spot YouTube channel.

Illustrations for the book "Life After Transplant: An Essential Guide to Sex and Relationships" made by Anthony Nolan, the fantastic charity who help patients with blood cancer.

I was particularly pleased to work with this charity because they helped my mum in 2014 when she had a stem cell transplant using stem cells from an Anthony Nolan donor.

If you're aged 16-30 you can join the Anthony Nolan register and potentially help someone with blood cancer. Join the register here!

My Cardboard Life the webcomic made out of cardboard, paper and other bits and pieces. I updated this webcomic three to five times a week between 2008 and 2013.

Colin and Pauline step out of the 2D comic and have an adventure in the real world.

The story started on April 21st with five new updates a week plus an animated gif every Sunday.

There's also a hardback book version, with bonus 3D images and 3D glasses. 

Acrylic paintings on canvas. I did these for Sherwood Art Week 2018

Mini-comic I made in 2014 of Sister BFF comic strips.

Diorama I made for Thought Bubble 2014

40 page comic published by Hic & Hoc in November 2012. It’s a science fiction romance story.

The print run has now sold out and it's out of print but it is available as a pdf on Gumroad https://app.gumroad.com/philipparice

I made this board game and painted the box and board. The little parts are sculpey models. The aim of the game is to collect the best presents for Egglington's birthday in time for the party.

Soppy - my autobio romance comic. I started posting these online in 2011. Now it's also a book which was released at the end of 2014!

Published in North America by Andrews McMeel. Published in the UK by Square Peg.

Artwork for videogames and culture festival GameCity. Work in progress! The festival takes place October 20-27. You can see the artwork I did for the website in action here.

26 page fairytale comic with Colin and a paper dragon.

Preview poster for the Looking Out comic.

Science Fiction collage comic with some of the characters from My Cardboard Life plus lots of new ones. a fifty page comic book.

Here's 2 pages of my 4 page comic in Nobrow 8: Hysteria  

25 page comic which you can get in the shop or just read it right here for free.​

2 page comic for the anthology Bimba which is available to buy here.  

My biggest diorama yet. I put together this display in the window at Nottingham's wonderful comic shop Page 45. It's for promoting Game City, the videogame and culture festival which takes place in Nottingham on 20th - 27th October.

If you'd like to see more photos of this I put loads in this Flickr set.​

Some more Preview posters for potential new storylines which I did at the beginning of 2013.

Some Preview posters for potential new storylines which I did at the beginning of 2013.

The first two pages of my four page comic Sister BFFs which I made for The Hic & Hoc Illustrated journal of Humo(u)r volume 2.

Some excerpts from last years hourly comic day, where all day people draw one comic per hour about what they did in the previous hour. 

You can read the whole thing here.

Diorama I made for Thought Bubble 2013

Ink drawing which I also made into a repeating pattern which has been used for​ Blik wall decals.

A little art book collecting photos of my best models, dolls and dioramas. Here's the cover and some photos from it. You can get a copy in the shop.

Gems illustration which I also made into a risograph print.

Me and my sister!

​Recipe for the comics magazine Ink + Paper.

​Repeat patterns drawn and coloured by hand.

Preview posters for potential new storylines.

These drawings were from a series of zines I made in 2009-2010 called Intricate Dwellings.

Four page story for newspaper comic anthology Paper Science 5.​