Carolineparkinson.blogspot.com moved to carolineparkinson.co.uk

After 7 years at carolineparkinson.blogspot.com my blog has finally moved- to my website, http://carolineparkinson.co.uk. Hope to see you there! Please click on the handy link below to visit it's new home.

Word Press Website

My website over at carolineparkinson.co.uk (follow the neatly crafted link below) is moving over to Wordpress at the moment so there may be some disruption for the next few days while I get settled. At the moment most of the content is sorted- it just doesn't look as pretty as it could.

dammit...

Great, my resolution of not buying comics until I have saved enough money to visit my sister in Australia is pretty damn shot.

I have been waiting for three YEARS for this book to come out

...and I already have a copy of this one but the new version is just so damn pretty

My show

I'm pretty busy getting ready for this at the moment. I'm going to show 12/13 pieces and it's a mixture of digital prints like the picture above and original sketches from the Shetlands and Norfolk. Most of the work has been posted here in some form or other, including the chickens on my title picture.

The Texture Blog

I've started another blog here: http://thetextureblog.blogspot.com/

This is a collection of texture photos for general use, though if you want high resolution photos you can buy a CD from me for £10 *

I've recently started using photographic textures in my artwork (see the recent pages of Trust in the Snow I've been drawing for Parable) in an attempt to make my computer colouring more three-dimensional. I had to find similar photos while I worked on Charlie and Lola, and used a great website called Mayang's Texture Website.

This was the only free texture website I could find (you could also buy all the high resolution textures on CD, this is where I stole the idea from ) it was wonderful, and it's no longer online. So I had to start taking photos myself. I decided that since I was building up a small library and was unemployed at the time (though not at present) I might look for opportunities to sell them on the Web.

I will keep adding to this site: a trip to South Africa in September should be specially interesting!

*Please email caroline@carolineparkinson.co.uk: I have not yet had a chance to set up an online shop

Predator anthology pinup

A pin up for the "Predators" Accent UK anthology. I missed out on the "Western" and "Zombie" themed anthologies but am scheduled to draw a comic for the "Victorian" 2011 release.
Also, you can now view "Sophie in the Souk" the TV programme which I worked on on the Travel Channel website here

Choose your destiny...and language.

New British Comics, a Polish/English anthology featuring one of my comics, was reviewed here recently, very favorably. I quote:

If you can track down a copy of New British Comics then buy it. Give this ground-breaking project your support.


Should you wish to take the reviewer's advice and track down a copy, it is available directly from the website here* My personal favourite strip is Jackie Goes to Hell by Dan White, but Daniel Locke's understated ghost story No Word Of A Lie... was the story which stuck in my mind.

*Actually, it has been kindly pointed out that it isn't. Yet. Watch this space.

Very Late Mile End Comic Thing report (This is espresso. It's coffee-zilla)

Pile o' comics I brought back from Mile End Comics Thing: the festival choice award goes to Will Kirkby's strange-but-intriguing The Sea trilogy ( http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/ ) and Tammy Taylor's Microwaveable Fox manga ( http://www.dreamtripper.net/ ) There were also a lot of one-shot black and white music comics about/ for/by/ bands, which were interesting.

The event was busy (I never managed to get to Kate Beaton's table, let alone buy any of her comics) and a little disorganized.* I didn't realize I was speaking on a panel until I got there and many people were not told until an hour before the talks.

I think I was on a panel about how to break into the small press industry. The irony was not lost on me. I apologize for being terrible interview fodder.

Mile End is always inspiringly small-press oriented and the quality of the work increases every year.

*and by "a little" I mean "a lot"

Shameless Self-Promotion

I've realized that I probably should use this blog for self-promotion a bit more, seeing as I'm currently relying on my artwork -and two part time jobs- to support myself.

So I have a bit of news.

My website has updated here:http://www.carolineparkinson.co.uk/ and you can now buy my sixty page Brain Food sketchbook, as well as the more reasonably sized Exile's Daughter and the manga style comic Inner City.

Should you wish to support a parasitic time wasting artist (who is however, no longer on the dole and persists in getting up at seven to go for early morning runs) through the credit crunch, buying my comics ( or even commissioning some artwork off me) is a good way to start.

My comic Do Not Feed The Bear is now on the children's comic site Kidjutsu here: http://www.kidjutsu.com/comic/do-not-feed-bear. Kidjutsu also features a lot of child-friendly comics by other authors.

And you can join a Facebook group here:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=193103344#/group.php?gid=46706416970&ref=mf for a book I illustrated recently: Vet School-Getting your Foot in The Door. I'm currently working on a similar book about law school.

And I will be sharing a table with Sally Thomson at the Mile End Comics Thing here:http://www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk/


Cheers
Caroline