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Richie Pope

@richiepope.bsky.social
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cartoonist + illustrator + storyboard artist + character designer richiepope.com richiepope.com/store contact: richie@richiepope.com

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 03/10/2026
As I'll take any opportunity to tell you: this is among the best-written games ever made, perhaps the best. You should play it.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 27/09/2026
Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social etsy.com/listing/6936...
Thuban Press Guide to Analog Self Publishing
Step-by-Step Instructions to Make Your Own Book Without a Computer
by Julia Gfrörer
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
now everything has two sides: is food tasty or is just tongue-gaslighting?
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 22/09/2026
"next time, log in with your face or fingerprint!" fuck you. log in with my foot up your ass
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trying 4 1/3 "Car Culture" sharing a few shorts from my most recent zine, Trying 4, making the con circuit with me throughout the rest of 2026. catch me in a city near you!
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is strong off of "directed by Kiyoshi Kurasawa" alone
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Masha Zhdanova'S WEBCOMIC IS ONLINE NOW!!! @mashazart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my article about artist's alley is up at @fansplaining.bsky.social today! thank you to everyone who talked to me about their AA experiences for this piece and let me use their photos fansplaining.com/the-death-of...
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The Death of the Artist Alley?
For smaller artists, increased costs and outsized merchandise expectations are putting convention-selling out of reach.
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Ben Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
very hyped for this edition to being coming out in November. I got a lot of love from Brazilian readers when Sports is Hell came out down there.
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
last day! noon to 6pm!
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Heidi MacDonald @ SPX @comixace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Outstanding Anthology goes to LAAB #3 by Ron Wimberly. Publisher Josh o’Neill accepts. “We have been nominated for every issue but never won so this is a real honor.” #spx #Ignatzawards
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
today! from 11am-7pm!
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
hey! you can pre-order "Super Itis: Special Edition," a reprint of my comic from 2017 featuring an exclusive new cover and a mac & cheese recipe from me. shoutout to @wildsignalinc.bsky.social for working on this with me
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Super Itis by Richie Pope — Wild Signal
A common folk phenomenon turned into a meditation on self-care. Super Itis sees a delicious soul food specter guide our hero through personal crisis to an epiphany regarding his own well-being.
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
come get this from me! and also other stuff! at spx tomorrow! table W63A!
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Small Press Expo! tomorrow! Table W63A!
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Come see me at a comics expo or zine fest near you. More dates coming soon 🏀
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Trying 4”, six short comics about traffic, siblings, a missing magician, and more. Drawn from Aug. to Sept. 2026 with a fountain pen and carbon black ink. 5 x 5 inches bright yellow outside, off-white inside 28 pages Debuting at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social this weekend 9/12-9/13, Table W63A.
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This review I published when I was EIC by Dexter Thomas, was the article that made it clear that Kusama anti-Blackness permeated her work, and even more disturbing, the art market was trying to cover it up in all sorts of ways.
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What the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama
A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
go outside and look at the moon
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
J is one of the best artists I've ever known
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
when I went to see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma at AMC there were at least 3 separate ads for AI, one about a businessman who generates a movie the audience started talking about how much AI sucks
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ÉZÈ @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
There’s no Woke 1 or Woke 2. There’s only staying woke. Everything else is white people nonsense that should be swiftly disregarded.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
When a Black person fails it satisfies the societal preconceived notion that allowing Blackfolk to exist in shared space at all is an act of charity they should have been too grateful for to exhibit poor judgment or make mistakes in the first place. It justifies your collective beliefs about us all.
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i'm at this today, updated table 17
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Trying 3" drawings, sketches, and improvised one-page comics from the summer of 2026. the third zine in a series I'm really having fun with 5 x 5 inches green outside, cosmic orange inside 100 copies first available this weekend at oczinefest.com then in my store and other comic shows after
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Treywop. 🌬️🪼 @tryvns.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
Thomas Jefferson:
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Police have never acted in solidarity with other workers. They’ve never been interested in protecting the rights of workers. They’re there to protect the interests of property and capital and power. They have never been on our side." www.welcometohellworld.com/police-have-...
Instinctively to me it makes sense. But if you wanted to explain to someone why police aren’t workers and why they don’t belong in the labor movement, what would you say?

Well, they’re agents of the state...Police have never acted in solidarity with other workers. They’ve never been interested in protecting the rights of workers. They’re there to protect the interests of property and capital and power. They have never been on our side. Going back over the centuries, police have never stood beside us on a picket line, they’ve been there beating us and cracking our skulls. Some of the biggest events in labor history, like the Haymarket riots, were started by cops murdering striking workers at the McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago. When it comes down to the definition of a worker, bosses are management, and a cop is a boss with a gun. There’s nothing that they have in common with actual workers. I think because the police are a diverse workforce with people from various walks of life there’s this sort of inclination that people like to say, well, they’re workers, they’re working class. They’re just regular guys. Well, ok, if a regular guy iron worker murders someone, he’s gonna lose his job. Can you say that about these “regular guy” cops? You can’t, because that’s how the system is set up. It may seem reductive to go to an us and them framework, but honestly they started it.
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Why You Sometimes See Naughty Words in NYT Games" Times Insider AD: Vinnie Neuberg graphite on mixed media paper, digital color 7 in x 10.75 in
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
come see me at OC Zine Fest this Saturday 8/15 from 11am to 4pm at the Anaheim Public Library. I’ll be at Table 18 with zines and stickers, all made by me
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
very interesting that puzzles in games like TR-49 and Lorelai and The Laser Eyes really work for my brain and I just get completely dumbfounded by the ones in The Mermaid Mask. maybe it's deduction/number logic vs spacial/concept logic
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
damn today is my birthday
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Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🐺DARLIN' AND HER OTHER NAMES🐺 🩸This Week's Update: darlincomic.com?pg=22#showCo... 🐺Read from the beginning: darlincomic.com?pg=1#showComic ❤️Mirror Sites: darlinandherothernames.thecomicseries.com | darlin.webcomic.studio
New Update
DARLINCOMIC.COM

Comic panel illustration of a Black woman with glowing yellow eyes brandishing a knife.
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
since i'm talking about zines today, go make one! preferably printed. collect sketchbook pages, loose drawings, writings, shitty comics. it will teach you about the feel of paper types, spread design, the psychological/narrative of montage. edit at the end. then make another one
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
put together a zine to send off this weekend oh boy do I love making things
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911-Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was read nationally in the US. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll.
A black and white photo of Ormes.A black and white photo of Ormes at her drawing table.A black and white photo of Ormes with Patty Jo & Benjie dolls.
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
hey! you can pre-order "Super Itis: Special Edition," a reprint of my comic from 2017 featuring an exclusive new cover and a mac & cheese recipe from me. shoutout to @wildsignalinc.bsky.social for working on this with me
wildsignal.co
Super Itis by Richie Pope — Wild Signal
A common folk phenomenon turned into a meditation on self-care. Super Itis sees a delicious soul food specter guide our hero through personal crisis to an epiphany regarding his own well-being.
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Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
anyway. indie comics shouldn't have landlords
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Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In Italian, 1983 botfrens.com/collections/27/content…
In Italian
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
in the grocery store yesterday there was only one lane open and a guy wandering around said "man it sure is busy in here"
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the first few hours of Splatoon Raiders are pretty welcming, then you hit those timed dungeons. but then you unlock passive and auto-damage and then it becomes Diablo
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Store is finally live. Comics, zines, prints, and stickers (and more on the way). Everything made by me richiepope.com/store special thanks to @nicole-ham.bsky.social for a majority of the product photo editing
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
“Drake has been the foremost mascot of this shift, with his lyrics growing notably antagonistic toward women since his 2022 album Her Loss.” hammerandhope.org/article/isai...
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Is This What R&B Sounds Like When You Don’t Respect Women?
An emerging artist sings to an anti-intellectual misogyny growing common among men.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 25/07/2026
So much for SDCC’s anti-AI policies — I’ve been complaining to show management about this booth for three days.
A booth with an AI backdrop and AI posters
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
one of my strips from Guest Book is featured in this very good interview and read on one of the best cartoonists and strips in comics. grateful to be part of this continuum
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
will take any excuse to post my favorite LeBron thing ever
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Smash Pages @smashpages.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Winner of the Eisner for Best Reality-Based Work is Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance, by Ben Passmore (Pantheon) @benpassmore.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social #eisnerawards #sdcc
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
SDCC '26: Eisners So Black - 19 Black creators were nominated for Eisner's this year, and it provides a chance to look at this moment through a global and historical lens
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SDCC ’26: Eisners So Black
19 Black creators were nominated for Eisners this year, which provides a chance to look at this moment through a global and historical lens.
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
no need for any articles are reactionary backlash to pop culture. just quote that one Iranian cleric who said America's only heroes are cartoon characters
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Baxter @cosmicspooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New scanlation! Here's a delightful (and very blue) little 8 page manga from the legendary illustrator Shigeru Tamura -- most famous for works like Phantasmagoria and The Glassy Ocean -- dug out of the December 1979 issue of Garo Enjoy!!
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In Translation | "Midnight Rambler" by Shigeru Tamura
A tale of ghosts and ghouls now in English!
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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For whatever it might be worth, if you are a retailer you should be making sure to keep an eye on Bulgilhan Press and consider stocking their books. They are all fantastic and unique comics that more folks should get a chance to read!
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I have the build and demeanor of Sans from Undertale this is correct
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