updating my store soon since there's a gap between shows, but I still have very limited copies of That Box We Sit On and Modern Housing (both sold out at TCAF)

it really is wild coming back to the US after being outside the country. you can feel the culture stagnation by simply being in an airport. kids and their parents wearing the same clothes. no manners. touch screens everywhere but none of them work. take me back Toronto!

I dream of a future where having been a cop or a member of the US military is seen as disqualifying for political office

Yooooo remember a couple years ago when those three LA city council members were caught on tape saying a ton of insanely racist stuff and conspiring to gerrymander another council member’s district? That other council member was Nithya Raman. The voting bloc they were trying to split? Renters.

if you're at TCAF and you saw me tucked in the rafters downing a mustard and relish hotdog that wasn't me

last day at TCAF! help me get back to LA so I can escape Drake and his hitters

today! come see me! table 42B! second floor!

Blind Alley Guest Strip No. 29 ( @richiepope.bsky.social )

Come see me at TCAF this weekend, table 42B. I'll have older comics, newer comics, art zines, and more, all made by me!

Blind Alley Guest Strip No. 28 ( @richiepope.bsky.social )

Toronto! come see me at TCAF this weekend

Blind Alley Guest Strip No. 27 ( @richiepope.bsky.social )

AI never has been about equalizing creative fields, allowing “unskilled” people to rise from obscurity and create great things. No, it’s about convincing people that they’re incapable of learning, growing and creating entirely on their own. It’s selling you the idea you’re too stupid to try

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Are you by any chance going to be in Richmond, VA this weekend? Because if not you should really consider it. bubblescon.com

"this piece of media has gross stuff in it" man damn that sucks, did you talk to your mom about how the parental controls aren't working

AI is making everyone angry on an creative level but I just wanted to tell y'all my local art store was out of all the dark refills for lead holders

i don't want it now i don't want it when it looks better i don't want it even though celebs shill for it i don't want it despite the billions spent to push it i don't want to look at it, read it, talk to it, deal with it i just don't want to interface with it in any way, simple as

happy memorial day

New statement from San Diego Comic Con on the Eisner-nominated anthology using AI:

hey man, how does an AI comic page end up in an anthology, the kind of comic form that emphasizes editing

TN Republican: aint gon' catch me eatin a bananna whole. i'mma break that thing off into lil pieces. that's the only way it's going in *my* mouth- Joe Budden: pause

did some guest strips for Blind Alley's 5th Anniversary from @kumerish.bsky.social, a real modern classic

"this is from the other site" well then don't show me

y'all better watch out for @ronaldwim.bsky.social and these folks. guaranteed dope shit.

you can get this now! richiepope.com/trying-2-6

everybody get more underground/indie cartoonist now!

all grids are valid if they fit what you're trying to do. no grid at all is included in this

he's really good at talking like a normal person to people like me specifically

i'm at @cakechicago.bsky.social today from 11am-6pm! come see me and buy my comics and zines!

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

"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