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Kristen Radtke

@kristenradtke.bsky.social
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Creative Director @theverge.com, writer/drawer of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS

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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Excellence in visual storytelling: "Notes from a Burmese Prison," the moving and intimate comic from Danny Fenster and Amy Kurzweil about being incarcerated in Myanmar. (I kinda think no one does digital comics like The Verge? @kristenradtke.bsky.social won this award last year!)
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Smuggling podcasts into a Burmese prison
Danny Fenster was jailed during the coup in Myanmar. This is the story of how he got through it.
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
American War series from @theverge.com won an ASME for Best News and Information Design! Hats off to @kristenradtke.bsky.social @macaree.bsky.social and the team
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American War
A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/04/2026
Our special series, American War, just won an ASME Award for Design, Photography and Illustration for Best News and Information Design! The series challenges the legacy and misconceptions of the conflict commonly referred to as the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon. 🧵
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American War
A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New feature design for a @theverge.com @joshdzieza.bsky.social banger, including a dark mode toggle because I am very nice: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers
Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 04/03/2026
American journalist Danny Fenster was in Myanmar during the 2021 coup. Though at first he watched history unfold on his phone, he would soon be pulled into the other side of the glass. Read the full comic "Notes from a Burmese Prison" www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
comic panel, a man and a woman sit next to moving boxes. he says "have you seen this?" and she says "wait... what?"A pair of hands hold a phone in landscape mode, looking at a viral video of a woman filming a workout video as tanks roll by in the background

speech bubbles:

"She was just filming a workout video."

"STOP."

"And there's THE COUP right behind her!"
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
One million percent psyched that ASMEs and the National Magazine Awards honored @theverge.com art team's work with FIVE nominations. SO proud of our scrappy little team and stuff we made. Threading the eye candy: asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...
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NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2026 NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I think the coolest thing we do at The Verge is publish comics. This one is brilliant (and behind the scenes, an absolute beast of engineering)
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 25/01/2026
"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun
by Sarah Jeong

Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night
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The Verge @theverge.com · 25/01/2026
The day of the second killing
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On the ground in Minneapolis after the killing of Alex Pretti
Photographer Steven Garcia followed peaceful protestors as they withstood being teargassed by ICE agents.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/01/2026
We’ve decided to make this story free for all readers, forever. We hope you’ll support this reporting by sharing it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 18/12/2025
It’s your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Verge’s limited-edition anthology of features, commentary, art, and more — all about “content” and the people who make it. It's available now for a limited time, only while supplies last. (psst subscribers, check your email for a special discount)
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Content Goblins Zine
It’s your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Verge’s limited-edition anthology of stories about “content” and the people who make it. Disguised as The Verge Guide to SEO, pull back the cover to f...
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New feature design for a great one by @joshdzieza.bsky.social and @haydenfield.bsky.social www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Who’s making the most money in AI? It’s not who you think
The fastest growing companies in the world aren’t AI companies, but the startups that supply them with warm bodies.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Oh it somehow got even more boring than the beige from last year www.theverge.com/24316196/pan...
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Partying with Pantone’s color of the year
“Mocha Mousse” will be everywhere in 2025. But does anybody actually like it?
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news
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Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Very cool that @kristenradtke.bsky.social won an Online Journalism Award for excellence in visual storytelling for her comic about motherhood and surveillance awards.journalists.org/entries/how-...
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A terrific (and hilarious) feature from @miasato.bsky.social, with brilliant design from @kristenradtke.bsky.social and @macaree.bsky.social.
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How dupes turned online shopping upside down
When everything is the same, who gets to claim ownership over ideas?
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
All gas, no breaks. Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 05/05/2025
FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious 
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous 
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 30/04/2025
Today marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. To commemorate—and challenge—the legacy of the conflict, The Verge commissioned five stories from five Vietnamese writers in a series called American War. Illustrations by Nguyen Tran 🧵
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American War
A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The only accounts I want to follow are coral reefs
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Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just an incredible piece of visual storytelling from the great @mattyhuynh.bsky.social www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Comic: Wandering Souls
The sounds that still haunt us, even 50 years after the Vietnam War.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
before I like, bury my head in a garden bed for the rest of the day, however literally, i want to re-share my piece about what we rob from children when we don't allow them to authentically be. fuck all the monsters who've abetted this genocide. i curse you. www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
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Mourning the Trans Boyhood I Never Got
I won't ever be nine or fourteen or twenty-one again.
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We had a rare black hamlet hang out in the field of staghorn corals today 😍🖤🐟🪸 #blackhamlet #hamlet #rarefish #staghorncoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Hello, I somehow won a Guggenheim??????? www.gf.org/stories/anno...
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Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
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Kristen Oh Yeah @thekristeno.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Tell me about your TV garden and your synthesizer library," asks @theverge.com's @kristenradtke.bsky.social. And I am so glad @jessiechar.com & @maxy.bsky.social answered. www.theverge.com/tech/631922/...
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The beautiful, retro tech of two theatrical sound designers
How a pandemic reading group and some color swatches led to one of Brooklyn’s coolest creative partnerships
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage
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Cartoonist R.E. Burke returns to UK after three weeks in detention
Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 09/03/2025
If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
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Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)
The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
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Andrew J. Hawkins @andyjayhawk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Women who worked at semiconductor factories in Silicon Valley are at higher risk of miscarriage or giving birth to children with disabilities due to exposure to toxic chemicals. With a new chip fab boom underway, are we just repeating the mistakes as the past? www.theverge.com/features/611...
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The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it
The US wants to manufacture chips again — but there’s a dark, overlooked history.
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“The truth is that most of us are brave, generous, altruistic, creative as we rise to meet the demands of a sudden disaster by rescuing and taking care of each other and re-building the terms of survival”
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The Verge @theverge.com · 05/02/2025
Six ways to send a message to your representatives
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Six ways to send a message to your representatives
Let politicians know what you want.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 03/02/2025
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter’s crusade to save books from Amazon
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Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter amps up his crusade against Amazon
The bookselling platform’s next frontier in the fight against Amazon: ebooks.
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Jean-Marie 🌱 @jm.j2m3clh.ca · 12/01/2025
On est d'accord pour dire que ca ne s'arrange pas, n'est ce pas ? Page 141, "SEEK YOU" voyage dans le solitude contemporaine - Kristen Radtke
Page dessinée, qui montre le texte : en 1951 Hannah Arendt écrivait que la désolation est le "fond commun de la terreur". Quand on perd contact les uns avec les autres on commence aussi à s'extraire de la réalité.

La page montre un baraquement, un grillage avec le slogan "Trump 2020" et plus bas des écouteurs. Un trousseau de clés et la couverture du livre d'Annah Arendt : les origines du totalitarisme.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 24/01/2025
Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
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Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
An interview with one of America’s most important cartoonists
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I interviewed the legend Chris Ware for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24...
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Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
An interview with one of America’s most important cartoonists
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 03/01/2025
The emotional entanglement of new motherhood and surveillance tech is movingly captured in this autobiographical comic. Hats off 🎩 to @kristenradtke.bsky.social and @theverge.com for creating this wonderful bit of internet storytelling!
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 30/12/2024
it's easy to apply to join the co-op... we're free, there's a library of member resources and discounts, collaboration opportunities on our forum and much more... if you've been hesitating, now is the time to start the new year fresh! cartoonist.coop/join/
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The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
to add to to this: I want journalists to know there are countless “content creators” using your reporting, misrepresenting it, erasing your existence & profiting from it. i found this podcast that literally PHOTOSHOPPED MY NAME OUT of my own fucking story. are we going to take this shit lying down?
A Tiktok screenshot of a podcast that used my story, Bad Influence, but photoshopped my name out of it
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Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...
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Century-Scale Storage
If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/12/2024
I commented when this was first announced that this 'color of the year' feels like part of the boogie beigeification of the world so I really enjoyed this read.
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Partying with Pantone’s color of the year
“Mocha Mousse” will be everywhere in 2025. But does anybody actually like it?
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is a strong example of what can be done with digital comics when you're willing to push both form and content beyond what's been done before. The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at @kristenradtke.bsky.social. H/T @austinkleon.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. 🙏
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I went to Pantone's color of the year party and talked about thongs, God, aging, happy goats, and lots of luxury goods. Read all about this product-filled extravaganza in my report for @theverge.com: www.theverge.com/24316196/pan...
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Partying with Pantone’s color of the year
“Mocha Mousse” will be everywhere in 2025. But does anybody actually like it?
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The art in this feature is so gorgeous I want to crawl inside my computer and live inside it: www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Since the start of The Verge, we have published in-depth features and beautifully art-directed zines. Tomorrow, we pivot
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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This comic about becoming a mother & the anxieties (and tech) that comes with it by @kristenradtke.bsky.social in the @theverge.com is so beautifully done on all accounts—the art, the writing, the design.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ever since The Nib ceased publication, I've been missing that quarterly does of thoughtful, deeply felt non-fiction comic storytelling. This, a story about baby monitors and also about parenting in an age of abundant data, hits that feeling perfectly www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
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