Can confirm. 2025 pencil rate is roughly $40 more per page than my initial rate in 1980, adjusted for inflation using BLS calculator.

The DOJ is supposed to prosecute tax cheats, fraudsters, pedophile traffickers, serial rapists, traitors, insurrectionists etc and throw them in jail. I pay good tax money to see this work faithfully executed…

5 bucks a sig, which I split with the Hero Initiative. No schedule, just rock on up!

This weekend. Two (2) days!! www.lehighvalleycomicconvention.com

Big Lick Manassas Day 1 is all done! Day 2 comin’ up! www.blccnova.com

Different venue, same neighborhood! And Willard’s is still right around the corner! dcbbq.com#top

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

Watson & Holmes: A Study in Black. Words by Karl Bollers.

After days of puzzling, it just came back to me that the cuspidor version of The Toreadors from Carmen isn’t Bugs Bunny, it’s Bart!

This weekend! www.blccnova.com

Academic discrimination against the Geocentrist perspective has long been no less than horrific.

@matlopes.bsky.social colours are great.The choice of colours recalls Adrienne Roy & also the Gaijin studios guys who took their cue from Stelfreeze I guess. Lime greens, aquablue. Such a perfect compliment to @chrissamnee.bsky.social and that Toth/Robbins/BtAS vibe. Very happy there’s more coming.

Back to regular programming! Here’s a thing/

Especially if admitting it means acknowledging the pointy-headed hippie liberals, who said it was a scam, were right all along. This isn’t shame or fear of embarrassment, this is hatred. Trump allows these people- sick of being wrong about civil rights, women’s suffrage, smoking, seat belts..

Thank you MC3 and all the fans this weekend. Outstanding show! Books were signed, sketches were drawn, and burning questions found their answers. See you next time!

Motor City Comic Con this weekend! motorcitycomiccon.com

TOMORROW!!!

Including this guy!

Bringing a box of these guys, along with the usual stuff.

Sono tornato! See you next weekend in Detroit! motorcitycomiccon.com

À propos- youtu.be/ArfW-VA4i2c?...

In this case the secret to my omnipotence was the mighty Terry Austin!

A scene seen in Assisi-

May the Fourth be with you! ❤️ @rick-leonardi.bsky.social

NapoliCon, day 2!

ComicsPoint is everything a comics shop should be! ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️! Tante grazie a Stefano e Edo! On to Naples!

Here, to scale.

The @Lake Como Comic Art Festival 2026 is done.Such a great and unique event in the world. The Artists Scott Hampton and @rick-leonardi.bsky.social enjoyed and met a lot of fantastic fans,from worldwide. The comic art borders are still open and this is great!Thanks to Steve, Arno,and the staff.

#hammthread They laid the foundation for mid-century American adventure comics. Caniff's formula is still seen throughout European comics. Caniff's work owed a debt to SCORCHY SMITH by Noel Sickles, who innovated heavy, simple black-spotting to define forms (still in common use!) Compare these:

This weekend is the weekend! This will be the 5th time for @comicsrep attending the @como_art_fest. See you Saturday and Sunday in Villa Erba, booth L10-2 @rick-leonardi.bsky.social , and L10-3 Scott Hampton. 🔜 #lccaf #villaerba #spiderman2099 #batman #comicsrep

Grr. Attachment!!

I think this was on screen (plus colors and cover dress) for a split second.

Pre-gaming in the airport lounge.

And we’re off!

Yes. I say this all the time- your best drawing is your next drawing.

A little less than 48 hrs until wheels up for Como, and the last pre-show is DONE!

Thank you!

Look! Up in the sky..

First DC job!

Nice! Kids, see how that lighter blue on the top of his cowl grabs your eye and brings his head forward? Optics baby!

Laura’s pretty amazing too, just sayin’!🤩

Он всегда хороший мальчик!

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

He still looks pretty good at 35!

Oops my bad: for June read May, and for July read June. Closer than I thought!

Rico’s colors! Making it look easy (pro tip: it’s not!)

Closer to home, come see me in June at MC3 (Detroit) and Big Lick NoVa (Manassas), or in July at Lehigh Valley CC (Allentown) and Heroescon (Charlotte). I’ll have my Sketchbook for sale. Also too my GN Blue Angel (in part, a story about war in the MidEast started for bs reasons. Plus ça change..)

Swell! Just as I’m riding off into the sunset 🙄

Cartoon by Bob Eckstein