My first ever picture book! It’s a story about a flower who wants to experience something different.

Published by Cicada Books. It’s out on 23rd April 2026, available for pre-order now.

Buy it at: Bookshop.org • Foyles • Waterstones

Or anywhere you like, just search for “Uprooted! by Philippa Rice”

When you step outside the world you know, adventure blossoms!

A flower grows in a garden. The other flowers are happy with the same fence, the same sky, but Little Flower longs for something new. He wants to see the world. So, the gardener pops him in a pot and takes him on an adventure. The flower travels far and wide, feeling the rush of the sea and the wind, discovering new soils and new horizons. The world is more wonderful than he could ever have imagined. When he returns home, he tells his friends about his adventures, and next time, they all come along.

This gorgeous, sweet and laugh-out-loud story from New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Philippa Rice is a joyful antidote to digital fatigue and restless scrolling. It’s a vibrant reminder that the world is still full of wonder -- if only we open ourselves to new feelings, new places and new adventures.

Publisher: Cicada Books

ISBN: 9781800660700

Number of pages: 36

Dimensions: 260 x 225 mm

Languages: English

My very long sketchbook. It’s a concertina, two metres long and full of drawings from life. I used a mixture of whatever materials I had around, ink pens, felt-tip pens, crayons, pencils and collage.

A board game I made for my niece, Sophie

quick comics from my sketchbook. I post lots of these on Instragram, and on Substack (with additional writing and other things).

Poster for the animated music video I made with my children.

Watch the video on Youtube.

I used my children’s drawings and paintings to make the animation. They also animated some parts themselves.

Look in the ‘Crochet’ section for more.

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

This little booklet is a collection of my sketchbook diary drawings, photo collages and doodles and models. I made this to bring to Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival in 2025

24 page mini-comic (except it’s not that mini, it’s 21cm big).

A collection of painted comics about me and my children.

A scary board game I made for my Nephew, Theo. I used neon paints for the full ghost train experience.

Feel free to also check out the animation I made of this on Youtube.

I have been exploring making prints using plasticine on toys and figurines. I use an ink pad, pressing the plasticine down enough to pick up the features of the face. Here are some examples.

My animated video, We Are Always Here, was an experiment using this technique multiple times to make the faces move. Have a look in the animation section of this website to watch it.

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

Artwork I made whilst writing Reignclowd Palace. Just trying to generate an atmosphere whilst writing the novel.

I was very happy to get to draw my own chapter illustrations for my fantasy novel Reignclowd Palace. This is a little selection, but in the book there’s a unique image for each of the thirty nine chapters.

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

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

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

A board game that I made for my nephew

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.

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.

A big crochet sculpture who can give birth to and breastfeed her five babies.

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.​