4300 pounds of books, 2000 copies of Rice Boy. More physical labor than I have done in a very long time. I am not going to do anything for the rest of the day.
Starting to send out Kickstarter preorders this week, then putting the books for sale on the site after SPX.
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This is a cruddy photo of what the book looks like with its little jacket on and all. Without the jacket, it’s the same as the print on demand version– images of the Matchwoods in day (front) and night (back). I’m very happy with the cover design, and pleased that I came up with something that no publisher would probably ever have let me do.
The wordless cover bothers people at conventions, though, so I made the jacket to have a title, blurbs, and flashier images. I guess I will see if it works this weekend at TCAF.
Very proud of these things. The preorders are going out the door as quickly as I can draw in them and pack them up, which is not very quickly. I’m very happy about how well these are doing already, and about how much more sustainable this will be than having them printed on demand. I am a serious-business self publisher now and it will be a little easier to pay my rent.
If you don’t follow me elsewhere on the internet, perhaps you are not aware that I just put up a new short story.
The Rice Boy books are here and they are big and heavy and numerous. Sent some up to Toronto for TCAF, and preorders will be next week’s project… and may take longer than that.
Doing a signing tomorrow, in Asheville, at Comic Envy!
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.
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.
This print is available for just one more week!!! and then never again!
thank you everyone
Hi everyone! I recently started a Kickstarter project to raise money for the new edition of the Rice Boy book. If you’d like to preorder the book, or a number of other cool things that are on the way, please consider helping out!
Thank you!
EDIT I forgot to link to the kickstarter woops
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.
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.
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