A Kettle of Fish

Beansprout said:
Awesome cards :D

Athena has a section of wacky cards in their shops, sadly I can't find a website for them though :(
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Yeh they do a selection of fun stuff like Edward Monkton and Quentin Blake :) Meh. I do stuff for some of their stores but once again don't really want to divulge where and things incase I get banned :p

Athena comes under "vivarti" when googling by the way! They sadly went a bit bust in the late nineties and their stores reduced dramatically from a couple of hundred to around about 10 - 12.

I still think the stuff they do is ace though :)
 
DampCat said:
Do Athena still run? I thought they went bust.

Pheebs, i have my Gordon Ramsay card printed and framed :D
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No way! That's AWESOME :D Can you take a piccy of it and post?! Sounds like a bizarre request but it would make my day :D

I should send you a signed copy ;) It's doing quite well and I have good feelings about next year now I have my foundations layed :)
 
pheebs said:
Yeh they do a selection of fun stuff like Edward Monkton and Quentin Blake :) Meh. I do stuff for some of their stores but once again don't really want to divulge where and things incase I get banned :p

Athena comes under "vivarti" when googling by the way! They sadly went a bit bust in the late nineties and their stores reduced dramatically from a couple of hundred to around about 10 - 12.

I still think the stuff they do is ace though :)
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Ahh cool :)

We must be lucky to still have one in Plymouth then :cool:
 
pheebs said:
No way! That's AWESOME :D Can you take a piccy of it and post?! Sounds like a bizarre request but it would make my day :D

I should send you a signed copy ;) It's doing quite well and I have good feelings about next year now I have my foundations layed :)
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You should absolutely do that. Email in trust ;)
 
Masterdog said:
Kim loves the K9 one! I'd like the first one more if I didn't think I knew whose arse that is.
Also, Chocolate > Smoothies. Sorted for you.
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The bum one was not actually drawn to represent whom you think! Infact... you don't know who it was supposed to be :D So you can like it without worrying about who's bum it is :D

I love the K9 one too! :D

I had best test whether chocholate > Smoothies this weekend though just to be sure. You can join in too - I'll supply the chocolate... smoothies will come in the morning prior to bacon butties :D

Then the next weekend can be Chocolate vs Bacon.
 
Holy thread revival batman!

Just thought I would let people knows how it's all going.... and it's going SUPERB! :D So chuffed with what I've managed to achieve in over a year! Requests are still flooding in on the webby (www.akettleoffish.co.uk) and the cards are in a variety of shops over the UK! Whoop whoop! After having a hellish time with ebay (zomg to their fees! It's ridiculous!) I've managed to open my own online shop! Wooo hoo! (Am I alright to say that? I never know where I stand saying things on OCUK about my card stuff! If an admin thinks it needs changing let me know and I will change it! Thanks!!)

Thought I may be in trouble with the credit crunch, but it would seem they're still massively popular and orders are flying in regularly now! Nice to get paid for drawing stickmen ;D

Some requests in the past couple of months:

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Also have been doing requests for Invitations! These are the most recent invites I have done (wedding) :)

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So yeh! Super chuffed! Thank you to all those who have showed continued support and plonked requests at me every five minutes! I love them! Keep them coming!

Some more piccies and stuff can be seen on the webby above and there are loooads of requests on the Facebook Fanpage if you wanna have a browse about :)

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Excellent work getting things going so well. Your illustrations have such a great style - loads of fun & character.

I'll keep an eye out for them in the shops.
 
Hahahaha :D Thank you!

Financially things are always a bit tight to start with so a little funding wouldn't go amiss buuuut I am getting there (slowly but surely) and with Clintons paying me next month for having my cards in 20 odd stores, I should start pulling back through properly as opposed to walking the line of being in money... then out and then in... and out again! Rollercoaster ride it is! :) Kind of satisfying funding and doing it all yourself!

Would be nice to attend a couple of shows though... they generally cost around £1k or more. Erk. So yeh... hard to market on a budget really! I'm just trying to get into lots of independent shops and build a broad client base :) Have a few supermarkets interested too! Will hopefully be meeting with them at some point in the next month :D

Whoop whoop!
 
pheebs said:
I am getting there (slowly but surely) and with Clintons paying me next month for having my cards in 20 odd stores

Have a few supermarkets interested too! Will hopefully be meeting with them at some point in the next month :D

Whoop whoop!
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Wow, Clintons, that is big time for you isn’t it?

Well done, I hope that the future ventures all work out. :)
 
Pheebs, how do you produce the cards? More to the point, how do you mass produce them? What sort of volume are you capable of?
 
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