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

28 Years Later: Bone Temple!

OP you're trippin for the Mandy-slander but for me it is without a doubt Longlegs

Lmfao 😂 Jake Lang is experiencing the finding out phase in Minneapolis.

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

wherever there is effective radical action from the people best believe a democrat consultant is showing up to turn it into party fundraising remember: they co-opted BLM and increased police budgets. don't give these shameless leeches a dime

Feeling I'm constantly returning to the advice of Sonic Youth (itself a trenchant cultural entity to apply the following to): KILL YR IDOLS There's only peers: no superiors & no one "to look up to" in a sense of having put them on a pedestal, as there's less opportunity to be disappointed by them.

David Lynch gone one year today. "It would hardly be out of place to claim Lynch was the great artist of the last half-century or more. I’d be pressed to name more than a handful of others about whom the same could plausibly be said," @coreyatad.com wrote www.welcometohellworld.com/he-wanted-to...

the palantir aside, we should have known Sarumon was a bitch the way he criticised both Gandalf and Radagast for smoking weed.

a correct analysis

I’m not in love with arguing like so many of yall. you telling me you disagree doesn’t move me to want to defend myself. I don’t care. it’s a waste of time. we are strangers!

Please enjoy this animation of weekday subway service in NYC (by u/superandywaffle)

Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.

“The revolution loves and creates life; and in order to create life it may be obliged to prevent some men from circumscribing life. In addition to the life-death cycle basic to nature, there is an almost unnatural living death: life which is denied its fullness.” - Paul Freire

richiepope.com been working on my website for months and it's finally up. check it out and hit me up at [email protected] for professional work

scott adams blamed the black UPN sitcom wave for the dilbert cartoon's cancellation, an objectively terrible show

They are the stupidest, most hateful people alive. They have nothing worth listening to, nothing worth considering, nothing to offer except the squalid misery of their existence as an object lesson in how not to exist as a human being.

Never forget that the American right despise their own children and long to see them tortured, punished, and even killed, because they're repressed, self-hating freaks and the idea of anything outside their control or defying their arbitrary orders drives them totally insane with libidinal rage.

hard cope

I remember the police beating Rodney King, the media response and especially white America's response. This was my probably my first exposure to American racism and police violence. I was 5 years old.

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

SALUTE

the state really said, “you can’t be mad at me for murdering a protestor, i have trauma.”

the climb to mount fey in silksong was really impossible until I did it like 30 minutes after I thought that

It’s exhausting and disheartening and brutally sad, not least of all because fundamentally, it could be a different way. We could build it a different way. But a lot of people who say they’d like that to be true are, themselves, too afraid to believe it’s possible. I wonder who built them that fear

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

too much talking for my tastes

The next milestone we hope to hit is $15,000 for the Black Zine Fair: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

The wrong people are dying.

The gasp-laugh I made at this is something I couldn’t reproduce if I tried

this might join the halls of timeless posts like Matt Christman's "stupidest day" and Austin Walker's "immediately go to sleep"

A shameful choice, considering Javins's direct role in firing Gretchen Felker-Martin as part of the Charlie Kirk witch hunt. A capitulator.

one reason why moustaches are cool now is because right-wingers and Drake stans ruined beards

should be deeply shameful "narco-terrorist" has been allowed to even be taken seriously as a term for so many years. idiotic tooth fairy world

"Zine...low or no-budget self-publications....Xeroxed by Lowlife Scum on company machines." Comic by Jim Ryan in issue 5 of John Marr's Murder Can Be Fun: archive.org/details/murd...

We didn't make it to 50% of our fundraiser by yesterday but we're only $1555 away. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - please support the Black Zine Fair if you can.

Comics critics! You have just a few more days to apply to the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our goal is to reach 50% of our fundraising goal for the Black Zine Fair by the end of the year. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - If you can support us in bringing the fair to life, we would very much appreciate it.

New ongoing comic to begin release THIS THURSDAY dec 25th aka xmas "youths raised in an isolated cult-like community are exposed to the outside world when two strangers arrive and cause an incident" Free to read on substack or kofi linktr.ee/spiderbabby

I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.

speaking as and artist or writer or whatever, research (verb) is more important than research (noun)

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

Being able to draw is really neat! I would highly recommend it to anybody who likes to look at things

richiepope.com been working on my website for months and it's finally up. check it out and hit me up at [email protected] for professional work

the empty space in children's books and seeing "illustrated by", sesame street, saturday morning cartoons, my elementary school art teacher. art museums. my mom buying reams of paper and mechanical pencils. just being immersed in creativity and creative tools with no one telling me no

This is a great tutorial on how to make zines/self publish your stuff, whatever it is

my fear is that the academic push for understanding what works "best" in comics is to the benefit of the commoditization of the medium rather than improving the medium itself