A scribbly comic shop rant (and plea)

Announcement: Vicky Park!

Hello friends,

So this week has been very exciting and filled with good news!
I am to be the first cartoonist for the Leicester Mercury, Leicester's local paper!

I will have a cartoon strip in the new weekend supplement 'More' every week!
The strip will be about Leicester student, 'Vicky Park' (for those of you not from Leicester, this is a VERY funny joke - Leicester has a park called 'Victoria Park', but lots of the locals call it 'Vicky Park')

I thought I'd draw this sketch in celebration. Vicky's on the right, on the left is her little sis, Abbie.



The first strip will be in 'More' which will come with the Leicester Mercury on Saturday, October 29th. Pleeeease buy it if you're local to Leicester! And then show your friends and go 'oooh' and 'aaaahh' about it like I will be :)

Over and out,
R xxxx

Kabeedies poster for Twesta Promotions

I done a new gig poster!
This one's for the Kabeedies, please do come on down if you're in or around Leicester! Should be an awesome show...

One Good Thing comic FOR SALE!

Hey guys,
Exciting times! My first ever comic is on sale!
This comic collects the first month's worth-of visual diary entries on my daily blog 'One Good Thing'.
Each entry is something I found good about that day.
It helps me stay positive and I hope it will help others do the same.

If you'd like to buy one, I've got a few for sale in my Etsy shop here.

If you don't dig Etsy, or if they've sold out on there before I can renew, just give me an email on rachael(at)rachaelsmith.org and I'll sort you right out :)




I'm really excited about this guys, thank you in advance for all your unfailing support :D

R xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxoxoxoxox

More sneaky peeeks...

A few more tiny looks at my project I'm not allowing myself to talk about.
A teeny bit more info here.

Stuff People Told Me To Draw

I tweeted and facebooked the fact that I'd bought a new A6 sketchbook and asked for people's ideas on what I should draw in it.

Below are the first ten suggestions that came in...enjoy!

One Good Thing - the comic (vol. 1)

Hey you cool dudes,

NEWS: I'm totally gonna have a comic out soon! It will be made up of the first month of my comic-diary-blog One Good Thing. I'm gonna to be selling them at £4 each. Not bad for 40 pages :)

I'll shout about them loads once they're printed, but for now enjoy these preview pictures and if you'd like to pre-order one email me (rachael(at)rachaelsmith.org).

Soz about the terrible quality of the pictures. I'm a cartoonist, not a photo-maker! xxx