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Richard P Clark

@zippyrich.bsky.social
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Illustrator since '93. Clients & media wildly varied. zippystudio.com

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 8h
Daredevil by Alex Maleev. #comics #art
Watercolor illustration of Daredevil running towards you and he's thrown one of his batons at you.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 22h
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 8h
Hey, @deadredfred.bsky.social
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The thing people forget about Ossoff is he is John Lewis's last student.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gift article so everyone can enjoy the schadenfreude along with me! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shoot this into my veins.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The best part of the whole Eric Schmitt faceplant today is stupid ass John Kennedy standing up to hold one side of the poster board like some lard ass trophy hunter. These people are clowns. www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/u...
fat ass senator john kennedy holding up one end of a poster board with supposed incriminating evidence against jack smith with even stupider senator eric schmitt in the foreground during the clown show of schmitt's time questioning special counsel jack smith
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey, @jvl.bsky.social & @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, I sure hope you got to see this banger of an ad by Sherrod Brown this morning: bsky.app/profile/sher...
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not making it up: Just boarded a Southwest flight and as I passed the cockpit, pilot and copilot were telling a flight attendant about being furries. Regrettably for the intellectual powerhouse that is the U.S. senator from Alabama, in the next breath they started laughing and called him an idiot.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was not expecting this, but it is smart.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Posting this pick of Graham and saying the race is "neck and neck" is quite a choice. And I, for one, am here for it.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SO great.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This really is quite something–offering it up without further comment: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/m...
nytimes.com
Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Gift Article)
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just got a calendar alert: I was looking at the way the season was going, I pegged The Guardians for 84 wins on August 9th. Off by one. What I didn't note in my look ahead was being in the mix for the division during that post-ASG lull, let alone winning it. Helluva thing.
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Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the third straight season, the fourth time in the past five seasons and the 14th time in 32 seasons ... Cleveland has won the AL Central title. The Guardians get a first-round bye and will host Game 1 of the ALDS next Saturday at Progressive Field.
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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.
MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Between 29 and 35 percent of the American citizenry is too fucking ignorant to operate a republic. As Churchill noted, democracy is the worst form of government there is -- until you consider every alternative. It's hard, quotidian labor to self-govern, so the worst of us are exploring alternatives.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did not think I would -- or my children would -- ever hear an American leader go to the United Nations and muse aloud on whether or not to annihiliate another country. But then, I didn't think I would hear and see so many things over the last decade. We will never remove the stain.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cold, sober assessment of the current state of play and the correct question to ask: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Don’t Ask How This War Ends
It is, unfortunately, the wrong question.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hey, friends and neighbors, just a quick level check: the news about Lauren Bobert's trysts and affairs was leaked because Bobert agitated for the Epstein Transparency Act. It doesn't make her any less a hypocrite, mind. Just a bit of behind the curtain reveal is all.
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Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
José Ramírez Home run No. 297. 1,000 career RBIs 5-3 Cleveland
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What a wonderful tribute to one of the all-time greats from a first-person p.o.v. Thanks for sharing, Steve.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I hate this mendacious piece of shit SO much. It should go without saying that spewing false equivalencies between vaccine injuries and measles epidemics is exactly what one would expect from a goddamn lunatic, but I'll say it anyway.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh, to have live video of Stupid melting down today over the interest rate hike. Ketchup painted walls and crapped pants diapers; what a scene.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
cbsnews.com
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Truth.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago today I took this photo from the office in which I worked between 8:50 and 9:04 AM. I've shared the long story too many times to count so I won't repeat it here. I will say, however, I've always been grateful that…
WTC North Tower burning on September 11, 2001 as seen from the office in which I worked on the 53rd floor of 1 Penn Plaza at that time. This was the view I had when the South Tower was struck shortly after this photo was taken.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gobsmacking. This is absolutely horrifying.
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Steve Brady @stevebrady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ain't it da truth
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Alright, so the iPhone Duo is very cool. Worth the wait.
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
me finding out that Ted Cruz has made an embarrassing gaffe around 9/11
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Of all the idiotic, propagandistic lies this weak, worthless shell of a person has told, this has to be the worst. Tens of thousands of us NYC residents had truly traumatic experiences on 9/11–this lump of shit wasn't one of them. I cannot overstate how much this offends me.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
For my part, I am glad to have our neighbors to the north here for a visit. 🙂
Canadian geese visiting my neighbor’s yard; photo taken while out on an evening walk.
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Rockin’ Robin 🎶 🐦🪺 🎼 @rjow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“You’re being nice to me”….. ☺️ awwww
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Please tell me you were at least listening to that game on the radio, @jimswift.bsky.social
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If that wasn't enough, he hit the first pitch of the 9th inning for a walk-off. Helluva way to bounce back from a difficult stretch at the plate.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the more important voters say an issue is right now, the more voters dislike how the president is handling it. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-04...
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman’s people going to the Journal saying he has no interest in anything but Israel and Fox News. They literally say that. At the expense of legislating, constituent service and so forth. They say it’s down to the office, which can’t cope because he can’t keep staff.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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Arm Chair OSINT @armchairosint.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Diesel prices in California are by far the most important. California is a major shipping hub and the higher the prices of goods leaving California the higher the prices for everyday items. Just look at how much it's skyrocketed in a month.
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Neighbors came up to say hello while I was on my walk yesterday evening. I have friendly neighbors.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/09/2026
Poster of Disney's The Three Musketeers, showing four musketeers. Below, screenshot of Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, being told by his Cardassian captors that there are five lights, when in fact there are four.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem dying feels like a metaphor.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What a shitty year this has been, in almost every possible way.
theguardian.com
Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Poor, tortured soul. I still choke up when I hear this: youtu.be/acjbfp5hTts?...
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Sinead O'Connor - 'Troy' | Live at Pinkpop 1988
YouTube video by Pinkpop Archive
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Richard P Clark @zippyrich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This motherfucker. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms (Gift Article)
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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