this is still the crux of the issue. worried it always will be.

an irony that I and other Black artists I know in “alt comics” talk about is how good we had to draw to get respect in the space compared to other people. My old stories suck, but I was drawing my ass off. So I celebrated Black “mediocrity” when I see it at a show now. We deserve to fuck around

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

"Trying 2" a 16-page sketchzine, featuring cartooning, abstract art, and drawings from life. outside blue, inside yellow. the second zine in a series of doing whatever I feel like doing available at CAKE @cakechicago.bsky.social in Chicago next weekend

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

EVERY artist absolutely ADORES art made people who are not trained. We all look at it with absolute joy because it feels like the purest art that's possible. We have all this training, but with it comes a lack of purity, and we spend our entire lives in futility trying to achieve that purity again.

Trying (Some New Stuff) a 16-page zine featuring sketchbook selections from 2025-2026 drawn with water-based art markers and fountain pen now availalbe in my store

new illustration for NYT Opinion about a former prosecutor against long prison sentencing thanks to AD Jordan Awan

Come celebrate 5 years of Blind Alley with me! There'll be an art show with many great cartoonists, a live reading of secret Blind Alley comics, and some exclusive merch/zines.

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

NEW ZINE! Trying (Some New Stuff) 16 pages of sketchbook drawings from 2025-2026 including recent IG posts available at Heavy Manners Zine Fair in LA this Saturday, 4/11 from 12pm-6pm I'll only be there for one day so pull up

🌞 SOL CESTO – 1.0 OUT NOW ON STEAM 🌞 It took us nearly 3 years, but Sol Cesto is finally complete! We hope you’ll enjoy our weird roguelite and all the surprises we’ve added 👀 Please help us spread the word 🙌

🧨 The Brothers Boom: Volume 2 💣 Enjoy this preview of the first chapter from my next comic!

mind you-

a black mom:

hmm yea okay #AddToBlacksky

updated: •9/12_9/13_Small Press Expo_Bethesda, MD Keep track of the OP replies for any future dates

So grateful to have contributed some holy space pirates to this project! Please support Realis, it's a genuine banger

the show that brought me into the LA animation scene. forever grateful

Still looking for industry storyboarding work 🫡

new dates! come see me and get some zines in your city. some of these shows are in fact named after the city they're in so it's easy to remember •4/11_Heavy Manners Zine Fair_Los Angeles, CA •5/2-5/3_Chicago Alternative Comics Expo_Chicago, IL •6/6-6/7_Toronto Comic Arts Festival_Toronto, ON

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

another man

Sam Keith, one of the my favorite cartoonists of all time, died recently. his drawings weren't ashamed to look like drawings. his writing was full of empathy for the outcasts, the victimized, and their interior lives. the end of his series The Maxx broke my heart open thank you Sam Keith

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Nintendo banned you from posting clips of this game because of people like me

When you tell a black artist that he is not wanted, he does not stop creating. Artists would die if they could not create. He will create in secret and then take his creations to a place where he is wanted. And then sell his wares without a racist censor or a bigoted and condescending middleman.

NYT PR is on here replying to every trans person criticizing their misleading coverage of trans healthcare with this word-for-word when they are hellbent on the destruction of a people this is the sad sick shit they pay someone to do

going to post this with my art next time to trick y'all into looking at my lovely drawings

the ultimate woman is considered to be white and cis so all other womanhood is inherently masculine

in the face of wretched white supremacist violation from the police, afroman pulled a classic black move and became bugs bunny

It’s fuck the UK, Spain and the Netherlands too for abstaining. Three countries with the largest hand in slavery, who always point the finger at the US for how racist they are in comparison to you and now too cowardice to vote for naming it the gravest crime against humanity and start reparations.

just remembered that US/Israel twitter psy-op with fake black accounts referring to Palestinians as "watermelon people" to try to turn us against them

when companies come crawling back from the ai bubble burst and need Premium Grade Artist Labor again

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 23,1950

I did storyboard revisions for a couple months on this thing hello

RIP Sam Kieth. Damn this one hurts. His art style was cartoony and detailed in the best possible ways. His covers for Detective comics are unlike anything else of its era.

head empty, etc.

new favorite Basquiat piece jesus christ

when you don't have creative people involved we can tell

trying (some new stuff)

people have been comparing Pokopia to a lot of different games but did you know that you trek across diverse terrain to build structures so it's also Death Stranding

working on my first title card illustration, got into a handful of comic and zine fairs, contributing guest strips to a new classic, doing a short for a new comics anthology, and collaborating on a "remix" style comics project focused on my own work I love drawing and I'll probably never stop!

3D Type Sh*t Comms Open!!! Email me at nearshotcommissions@gmail to grab one. I’m pretty happy with them ngl. #3dtypeshit #ocsky #3Dillustration

Clear for takeoff—I’m excited to announce What Ended the Golden Age of Airships? The Hindenburg Disaster, A Who HQ Graphic Novel. Follow cabin boy Werner Franz serving passengers on the last flight of the legendary airship. I can’t stress how much life @ruemxu.bsky.social brought to the page.