I put up some originals on etsy! I do this from time to time and I should do it more, because I have a lot of pages of comics that aren’t getting any younger. Not really sure what price to sell them at but I think these are pretty reasonable.
Also a new densely-packed little sketchbook thing on gumroad.
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Rice Boy covers, old and new. What a relief to have some vague proof that you’re getting better at drawing.
I haven’t done a shirt in YEARS, and that is something Topatoco is good at doing, so now I have a shirt available at Topatoco! Rice Boy in an Eyvind Earle-inspired bushscape, in Moonlight and Sunlight varieties.
The Rice Boy book has now entered its FOURTH printing, and I re-designed its cover and overall design for the first time since the tiny overpriced print-on-demand version from 2008! I think it’s a good-looking book!
The first few hundred orders of the new edition will get the set of three stickers shown here- 3 by 3 inches, full-color screenprinting on vinyl. Like the best stickers I have ever had made fyi.
Thank you all for reading my comics and still consistently caring about something I started almost eight years ago, it means so much to me.
Process on the Rice Boy Tenth Anniversary Print.
I wanted to make something iconic and square-shaped, that dealt abstractly with the weird-ruined-fantasy aesthetic that shows up in the comic. Ten pillars make sense, and I think I came up with the “Rice Boy is shaped like a keyhole” idea while I was working on the comic and never got to use it. I figured out the tops of the pillars while I was inking it I think; and decided to make the shape and the glow be reminiscent of the face of The One Electronic, the book’s other central protagonist, I’d say.
Ink and brush, color in photoshop. The whole image is printed at very nearly the size of the original drawing: 12 by 12 inches, on a 15 by 15 inch sheet with a wide margin.
A new, slightly esoteric Rice Boy product: some drinking accoutrements pertaining to the famous Hideous Child Tavern, the spot where the story of Rice Boy and all of Overside starts.
Rice Boy Candles on Topatoco; some new things with some old characters from Rice Boy.
Here is the RICE BOY TENTH ANNIVERSARY PRINT! It’s available through Topatoco until June 1, and no longer.
I started Rice Boy in Spring 2006 and it was the starting point of an entirely new way of thinking about making art for me, and of a career that is difficult and weird but as close to what I want it to be as I can imagine.
You can read Rice Boy online for free, or also in print. And an enormous navel-gazey exegesis is also underway currently.
Thank you so much for reading this thing and caring about it, all of you who have. I am continually awestruck that people love this comic, and it is to that love more than anything that I owe all of the work I will ever make. thank you.
I thought about making a sequel to Rice Boy for the first time ever and got excited and drew this thing. I don’t know if that will ever happen but it’s fun to think about.
Updated the Overside Miscellany Art e-Book—this is now EDITION FOUR! Over 100 pages of practically every piece of art related to Rice Boy, Order of Tales, and Vattu that I’ve made, and much much commentary.
(If you’ve bought this in the past, you should have received a free download link for the new edition! And if you’re a $5+ supporter on Patreon you got it for free there too!)
Sola, from Island Book: the Infinite Land
