My Cardboard Life

Just wanted to share this animation of Cardboard Colin that I’ve made as an experiment. I made it in what is probably the most wasteful, time consuming way possible, by constructing each frame on a separate piece of paper with a new piece of cardboard each time. I think if I wanted to make something longer, I’d have to try some other techniques. Maybe some kind of cut-out / stop motion thing. The last resort (but also much easier) would be to do it digitally. Anyway, I’ve got no real plans of making a My Cardboard Life film yet,  just messing about for now.

Are you going to APE this year? If not, then maybe you should consider it. After all I’m going to be there at tables 275 and 276A along with Cardboard Colin, Paper Pauline, Jonis Norac (Unconscious Ink) Ali Showkati (SSWestern).

APE aka. Alternative Press Expo is a comics convention in San Francisco. This year it’s taking place on the 17th and 18th of October. If you’d like to know more about it such as who the special guests are and how to get there, have a look at the website.

I’m going to be hanging around in San Francisco for a few days on either side of the convention, so if anyone’s got any suggestions of things which I simply must see or do while I’m there, please let me know!

Another upcoming event which is a bit closer to home (for me at least) is this craft sale in Southgate, North London on Saturday 12th September. I’m going to be selling the My Cardboard Life mini-comics as well as other books and zines, greetings cards, plushies and accessories.

I’ve made the three short My Cardboard Life mini-books into a set available on Etsy. Each one has its own little story or theme (as opposed to My Cardboard Life volumes 1 to 4 which are collections of random strips).

If you’d like to see more about it, have a look at the Etsy listing here.