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Casper Manning

@casperusual.bsky.social
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Cartoonist + Illustrator | Queer + transmasc 🏳️‍⚧️ from the U.K | He/They | Rep’d by:Alice Sutherland-Hawes @ashliterary Shop: caspermanning.etsy.com I make silly Star Trek comics sometimes

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The Szym Reaper @ NYCC F21 @adamszym.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Tonight is huge for Cartoonist Americans as Zohran Mamdani is the first mayor of New York City with a cartoonist girlfriend
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
class is in session!
Illustration of a girl reading a book to a handful of lambs and two dragons in a big field. It's a beautiful day out so everyone's sunbathing instead. Drawn by gdbeeart in May 2025, paint tool sai
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's Bigger Than Alex Graham's Comic: An Instagram post has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy by suggesting that comics by marginalized groups are overrated
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Commentary: It’s Bigger Than Alex Graham’s Comic (With An Update)
An Instagram post by Alex Graham has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy
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Ben Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
new comic on Gil Scott Heron www.patreon.com/posts/pieces...
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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
oh I see, when the pope chooses a new name, Christians are all for it and address him as such, but a TRANS person chooses a new name—
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hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com · 30/04/2025
Top 5 Best Adobe InDesign Tricks That Almost Sometimes Work
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 23/04/2025
My drawing skills are perfectly consistent, as long as the room’s the right temperature, I slept just enough, ate well, have zero plans later, my chair feels right, my internet’s stable, I’m wearing my cozy hoodie, no one texts me, and I don’t remember that one embarrassing thing from 10 years ago.
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Hiveworks, a webcomic publisher that offered both digital and physical publishing and marketing services - will shut down its publishing operations by the end of the year.
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Hiveworks Comics sunsets publishing program
Hiveworks, a webcomic publisher that offered both digital and physical publishing and marketing services - will shut down its publishing operations by the end of the year.
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The British gov saw acclaimed anime Psycho-pass and learned nothing.
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
save me from the Daily Horrors soft Mon Rovîa song
An illustration of a boy tearing up whilst holding a phone. The phone is playing “City on a Hill” by Mon Rovîa
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It’s like that thing where they let the penguins out to see other exhibits but it’s dinosaurs at the museum. Super thrilled with how these new A4 riso prints turned out!! Grab them at my shop or at MoCCA this weekend!
Photo of a risograph printed illustration of a dinosaur skeleton. The dinosaur is surrounded by lots of storage boxes containing more dino bones and other scientific research. The room the skeleton is in looks like a cluttered back room of a natural history museum. The print is printed in federal blue, sunflower, bright red and teal inks.Close up of the riso print from slide one. The riso texture is more visible.Another close up of the riso print from slide one.
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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
When I hear people describe themselves as content creators.
An older Orson Welles sitting down for an interview, but with a meme quote that says: Content, content, content! A taco possesses content. A ship's manifest. An owner's manual for the operation of a microwave. Was Botticelli a content creator? Did Joyce wreck himself in chasing English to its limits "for the vine"? My God, man; have a little self respect.
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Excited to be tabling again with @kurogyen this spring! Our first event is MoCCA the weekend after next. Table number 61.
Spring 2025 Con schedule with @kurogyen. Moccafest March 15-16, Capital Art Book Fair April 5-6, BICS April 26-27Illustration of the Moccafest table map. We’re at table 61
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Debbie Fong 🌲📬✨ @debbiefong.com · 11/02/2025
📢 My origami book Kickstarter is live!! ✨🎏 The LITTLE BOXES book includes everything you need to fold 8 mini paper cartons, each with its own illustrated design. ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/deb...
The LITTLE BOXES book, featuring illustrated, bold typography, and an image of 6 mini origami paper boxes designed like fruit/vegetable/beverage cartons, arranged with lots of little toy food props
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025
I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s gonna be a long 4 years.
Illustration of a white boy staring grumpily at a computer. An orange hand is shooting the middle finger from the computer screen right into the face of the boy. Orange speech balloons come from the computer saying “Nazis but they’re tech bros?? Anti-trans bills, general fascist bullshit, we hate you and all your friends, also pay us money”
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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 17/01/2025
THRILLED to announce my next graphic novel, FLIP, which hits bookstores Sept 23, 2025. 🔄✨ This is my most heartfelt, introspective, and autobiographical project to date. I can't wait for everyone to read it!!! Find out more here: flipgraphicnovel.com Pre-order here: bit.ly/4aoq3tv
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year! Their year technically doesn’t start for another month but the snakes want to party NOW.
A bright red illustration of 4 snakes celebrating new years eave. The snakes are coiled up inside various drinks glasses. 3 of the snakes are holding sparklers with their tails. In the middle, a snake in a wine glass says Happy New Year
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/12/2024
lmao he's getting Shinzo Abe'd
The New York times

Bipartisan Lawmakers Seek to Break Up Giant Health Care Conglomerates
New legislation would force UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna to each sell their pharmacies within three years.
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A small #comic about eczema and computers.
An illustration of hands covered in a rough skin rash. The skin and rash are coloured in unnatural green hues. The text reads: I have a condition that makes my hands pucker and scar. It hurts. Sometimes it bleeds. It’s just a rather annoying form of eczema.The same hands covered in the rash reach for a computer keyboard. Text reads: recently, it’s spread to my fingertips. Which means that my computer’s fingerpad lock no longer recognises me. Below this panel there is a drawing of a man shouting at a computer. The computer says “your fingies…they seem suspicious” the man shouts “let me in! I have work to do!”An illustration of a computer Lock Screen. The text reads: luckily I know my own damn password so the foolish machine is forced to let me in regardless. Below the man looks at his computer. The computer cheerfully says “oh! It’s you! Why didn’t you say so earlier?” The man has a thought bubble saying “one day I’ll replace you with one of those laptops that unlock with face recognition…”
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polly @pollyguo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
You can find more information on “Last Minute Gifts!” here: trusting-guardian-c77.notion.site/Last-Minute-...
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Last Minute Gifts: A Holiday Market for a Family in Gaza | Notion
How does this work?
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This riso print is a still a bit of a work in progress (the colors didn’t work out quite as I’d intended) but please enjoy nonetheless!
A risograph illustration of a large workshop filled with neon signs. New signs are being crafted by some kids in bright red jumpsuits. The whole scene is printed in bright neon red, black and teal inks.Closeup of the previous image. One kid is working on a sign at a workbench while another is on the floor. In the foreground there is a bright neon sign saying “Live music” with an arrowAnother closeup. Two kids in red jumpsuits are carrying a neon sign advertising a golf club.
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Kyla Aiko | Foxlight comic @aikosmith.com · 18/11/2024
Lettering is fun!
Picture showing six different styles of speech balloons and text. Speech balloon text says "what?" in the top and bottom row except for the bottom right balloon. Text reads "WHAT?!" in the bottom right.

Top Row, L to R:
Spinner Rack Pro by Blambot (somewhat dtandard dialogue)
Boba Date by Sara Linsley (
Spicy Noodles by SL

Bottom Row, L to R: 
Rosehip by SL
Chewed Pen by BB
Bestagon by SL
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thought bubble was super fun!!
A photo of a comic convention booth. Art prints and books are displayed in a stand above the table. There are two people behind the booth. The signs above their heads identify them as “Casper Manning” and Ray Kao. They are both smiling.
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Thrilled to finally be able to shout about this GN I’m working on!!
Casper Manning’s Flying Out, following a teenager who, while spending a summer in their old hometown, realised they do n out identify with the gender they were born as, to Alex Lu at Random House Graphic, at auction, in a two-book deal for publication in summer 2027, by Alice Sutherland-Hawed at ASH Literary (World English)
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Carefully engineered powerlessness in the face of atrocity.
I put another payment on my nearly maxed-out credit card.False money, false hope.I know we cannot crowdfund our way out of a genocide. There is no amount of money that I can give which will stop the bombs.But what else can I do when people are dying?
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 11/04/2024
Not gonna address this any further because the terrible and "obviously-not-bitter" transphobic writer wizard lady trapped in a hell of her own making can easily go sit on several tacks but imagine saying "I'm not going to accept your apology" to people who never offered you one to begin with lol
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Here is a little comic for the folks who often find themselves feeling alone. This piece will eventually be a riso zine with a poster on the back but probably not till later in the year!
An orange and blue illustration of star with a heart at the center glowing brightly in space. The title says A Litany for the Lonely.

The illustration zooms in on the star. At the center is a glowing person curled up. The text below says: I will not fear my own company.

The glowing star person is greeted by various spaceships and satellites. The text reads: I will cherish those around me while they are here.

Close up on the star person as they pu a hand to their chest. The text reads: and when they are not, I will cherish myself.Back on earth, a man holds a star chart which includes the star person. On a cork board in the background there is a note that says “new star?”. The text reads: My loneliness does not define me.

The man holding the chart is in his office looking out the window at the star. His room is fun of star posters, planet diagrams and telescopes. The text reads: I am not broken or without love.

The man focuses his telescope on the star person. Text reads: I peacefully await the next bright moment of connection…

Closeup on the telescope viewfinder where we can see the star person smiling at the man. Text reads: …with hands and heart outstretched.
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Ollie @ordheist.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
🤖 ➡️ 🚽
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Small postcards and large riso prints of this illustration will be available at the cons I’m attending this spring! Multiple Formats (Boston) March 23 [THIS WEEKEND!] Capital Art Book Fair (DC) April 6-7 BICS (New York) April 13
A photo of a desk. There are two versions of a printed illustration featuring dinosaur skeletons laid out on the desk. One is small and printed on a laser printer, the other is large and printed on a riso graph printer.
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Debbie Fong 🌲📬✨ @debbiefong.com · 19/03/2024
My book is out today 🥹
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Come grab some fun prints and books from me this spring! March 23rd Multiple Formats Art Book Fair (Boston) April 6-7th Capital Art Book Fair (DC) April 13th Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase (New York)
Illustration of a boy with brown hair flexing in his exhibitor outfit. Next to him are drawings of posters, card and comic books. On the left hand side is information about various fairs: March 23rd Multiple Formats Art Book Fair (Boston), April 6-7 Capital Art Book Fair (DC), April 13 Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
New short comic! Backpack Or My Desperate Desire to Throw Everything Away. [1/2]
Text: Backpack or My Desperate Desire to Throw Everything Away. Illustration of a green backpack.Text: Every few months, I get in a strange sort of mood where I want to throw out everything I own and move somewhere new with just a backpack. Illustration: a boy with a green backpack does a thumbs up as if he is about to hitchhike.Text: I’ve been doing this since I was little. I would fill the drawers under my bed with crap until I couldn’t stand it anymore…(note: the word myself is crossed out)…and then I’d get a huge garbage bag and throw it all away. This is way before Mari Kondo. Illustration: a young girl puts her toys into the drawers under her bed. At the bottom of the page, another draw is absolutely stuffed with objects.Text: I never quite remembered the things I threw out…just the smell of the plastic garbage bags…and a sense of relief. I lost a few things I really loved that way. Illustration: hands throw garbage while a boy sits sadly outside of the frame looking at an object.
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Wanted to see if the longest baguette fits on Bluesky.
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Already posted this on insta but here’s a recent illustration I really liked! It’s going to be available as a riso print later this spring!
Detailed illustration of three kids in a large storeroom full of dinosaur bones. There are many boxes stored on shelves and in the rafters. On the floor of the storeroom there a half-finished dinosaur skeleton that the kids are reassembling. The room is bathed in yellow light while the boxes in the ceiling are blue toned.
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Casper Manning @casperusual.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
I promise my real desk is neater than this.
Illustration of a white man wearing a white shirt and brown pants sitting haphazardly in an office chair. His desk, floor and walls are covered in comic pages. Some light is coming in from a small gap in a window on the left. The whole room is tinted slightly green and brown.
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