My Cardboard Life

2013!

by Philippa Rice on January 15, 2013 at 10:23 pm

Posted In: blog

Do we like 2013 so far? It’s too early to tell! What’s coming up this year? Well, The Gold Room gallery are having an exhibition of my work that opens on the 6th February, so if you live in Southsea or want to visit you can go and see some of my comics and drawings and crochet models in real life!

I’m going to keep the comics update schedule to three a week for the time being, but when I start the new storyline I’ll go back to five a week. Here are the results of the vote:

We’re Out – 175

Puppy School – 66

Treasure in the Arctic – 65

Paper Patisserie – 52

Business Pauline and the Fortune Fax Machine – 48

Dimension of the Ghosts – 46

Weird Undersea – 38

The Town Flyer – 23

RoboBFF – 18

Tantrum – 8

So We’re Out won by quite a long way! Which is good because it’s going to be different to anything I’ve done before. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure it out and start making it within the next few months. Then later in the year I might make one (or more?) of the runner up stories. Probably won’t be making Tantrum though!

What else is going to happen in 2013? We’ll find out soon I suppose. I’m sure I’ll be exhibiting at some comics shows in the year but not made a lot of plans yet so if there’s any that you think I should consider, let me know.

4 Comments

Recyclost books have arrived!

by Philippa Rice on November 22, 2012 at 4:13 pm

Posted In: blog

The Recyclost books have arrived. If you’ve pre-ordered a copy I’ll be sending them out right away so expect to see it soon. Thanks so much for ordering it!

~~I’ll be randomly selecting the winner of the knitted intern TONIGHT at 11pm GMT so there are a few hours left to pre-order and be in with a chance of winning it.~~ Pre-order here.

The knitted intern winner has now been chosen and pre-orders are now normal orders!

1 Comment

Recyclost wallpapers and Clopsy models

by Philippa Rice on October 7, 2012 at 2:52 pm

Posted In: blog

The Recyclost book is on it’s way. This is going to be the front and back covers. It’s not time for the pre-order yet but if you like, you can have a wallpaper for your desktop or phone

Fullscreen

Widescreen

phone

Hopefully those are big enough for any size screen you might have.

One more picture I want to show you…

I’ve made some models of Clopsy the horse. I’m going to have these for sale at Birmingham Zine Festival next weekend (13th October). Also whilst at Birmingham Zine Festival I’m going to be on one of the “Make it Then Tell Everybody” panels, so come to Birmingham and see me and my Clopsys.

1 Comment

Recyclost Completed

by Philippa Rice on September 11, 2012 at 12:43 am

Posted In: blog

Recyclost finished last week, so if you want to read it as a full completed story you can start from the beginning here.

I’m putting together a book version now which should be available for pre-ordering some time in October. The original plan was for it to be in exactly the same format as St Colin and the Dragon, but when I actually wrote it, it was almost twice as long so I’m going to do something different. There will still be a bonus comic strip at the back though, I promise!

Additional news:

As well as Recyclost I’ve also been working on another comic called Looking Out, which is also a Science Fiction story but in every other way it’s totally different to Recyclost (it’s all actual drawings, no collage!) You can see some preview pages of it here on my portfolio site if you’re interested. It’s being published by Hic and Hoc in November.

The next comics show I’m going to be at Birmingham Zine Festival on 13th October. If you can get to Birmingham that weekend you should come along. It’s going to be really good!

I’m not going to be at SPX next weekend (I wish I was, but maybe next year?!) but if you are going, look out for my comics at the Hic and Hoc table.

That’s all the news (for now). There’s no comics this week because I’ve been catching up on other tasks but I’ll be returning to normal updates on 17th September.

1 Comment