I wrote about the new J. Press for Put This On: putthison.com/64565-2/

I am applying for a job. I uploaded my resume. Now the website autofilled my resume into a very long series of forms (where they ask about what's on my resume). But it did it wrong so I'm copy and pasting and reformatting all the sections. Thanks computer. I do hope I get the job.

I am excited to play Slay the Spire 2

It would be cool if my toddler obeyed me at all times

Took talk! I’m inking today AMA

Hi, I'm a cartoonist who's worked in animation for about 10 years. I love working on Season 1's, doing viz dev, getting shows started, helping manage a design team. And! Well I love joining something that is already clicking. I need work! Here are some BG designs I made from OK KO Let's Be Heroes.

Watching Totoro for the thousandth time. :)

Ben is GREAT!! I’ve worked with him too. And I loved it!

Thinking about Le Guin's last Earthsea book, The Other Wind. I thought about this morning as I took too many photos of River walking in the rain. I could just enjoy walking with him in the rain but I want to... what? immortalize this moment perfectly? Capture the perfect smile? Insane.

Groaning so hard during today’s The Daily

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

River loves the word BUMP. He learned it from The Cat in the Hat!

Sorry to be mad online but we just watched FLOW (Best Animated Feature Oscar winner 2024) and, uh, I thought it was awful. What was the story? Does it have anything to say? It's just a tech demo for Blender, right? Maybe cat lovers like this movie? Guess I haven't made a movie so I can't cricitize.

This was an epic few weeks via the Burbank Library

Ryu's still hanging around, somebody bring him home

I spent years searching for the title of this game I remembered and finally found it this week on Reddit. I think it must have been pretty obscure. I loved the turn based combat and the character creation with re-rollable stats.

I love bathtime with my toddler so much. He is so freaking cute and I get to read a book while he goofs around in the tub.

I finished Tehanu (fourth Earthsea book)! Wow. Stunning. So good. Veerrrrrry interesting to read as a… parent? Er…. As an aging man? Hm.. idk how to say this. Obviously this book hits big for women and mothers. But it hits me!

Who else played this? Twilight:2000 video game for DOS, 1991

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Insanely hard getting the boy to sleep tonight ugh ugh ugh ✌️

In The Farthest Shore, when Arren is getting infected by darkness, he stops talking so much to Sparrowhawk except for trivial, mundane things. Sparrowhawk's silence is part of his strength but for Arren it's like the path of frustration and resentment and building resolve towards rebellion. 🤔🤔🤔

Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish: www.404media.co/icezine/

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

A good episode!

Ged is a libertarian (The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin)

The way Americans behave in a cafe 😒😒😒 Sometimes I get so cranky about the people around me…. Yghhhhhhh

This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.

Watching Ponyo (as I do 3 or 4 times a week) looking carefully at and counting the techniques they use to animate windy grass.

Our horrible upstairs neighbor seems to have moved out. She broke up with her boyfriend I guess (he still lives here and isn’t bad). This is such a relief. She used to smoke or vape in her bathroom and the smell carried down to our place. I am pretty confident she is definitely definitely moved out.

I have owned Disco Elysium for years and only this week did I finally finish the game. Wow! That was fun. I played an intellectual and really tried to become a good person, put darkness behind me. It was a good ending. Maybe next time I’ll be Bad.

S.F. Shorts Folio #1 (no black layer), part 1

Five new comic pages are up: Patreon.com/bensears You can help me make this thing for $1 a month at the link above

I wish I could just tell apple messages that I use a certain emoji for like 25% of the reactions and to include that up top (it's the prayer hands emoji)

Most insane Pitt thing ever give me a fucking break (“20th anniversary”)

This is a Titanium Daydream quote

I’m soooo grateful I watched Ponyo in a theatre (in Japan in Japanese!) when it came out. I wish I could watch in on a big screen again - the pastel art and the simple animation style - especially the water!! - are so good, when they’re HUGE.

Taking a deep breath and praying I don't forever delete something crucial when I empty the trash on my computer. 1TB hard drive and always juggling between 100-20gb of free space. Agh!!

Wore a tie today, felt good.

River is at my feet in the office opening up drawers and shaking bottles of ink. What could go wrong.

I'm animating in Photoshop, just little 2d looping things. Should I learn to use Adobe Animate? Will everything look vectorized if I do that? I like my weird scuzzy line from Photoshop. Is there something else?

I just re-read The City of Illusion by Ursula K Leguin. It’s my favorite of the first 3 Hainish novels, which I love, which are collected in one book called Worlds of Exile and Illusion.

Wanna read my latest strip for Put This On about CLOTHES? This week I wrote about my favorite practical clothes: good rain gear. putthison.com/style-fashio... Total lifesavers on a rainy week like this.

This works

River knows where we keep the remotes and he can reach them and is learning to work them. Scary. Good thing he’s such a good boy. He’s chill about it.

It would be so funny to switch toddlers with someone for a month. Just to see what it’s like. Give the kids a new world to explore. Idk

Scrolling begets scrolling and posting begets posting...only action begets action

Hunter Boots is having a "winter sale" but I would recommend: do not buy anything on sale. Just buy the "original tall rain boots" which are not included in that sale. They are the best.

Did you know? Books and prints should be exempt from tariffs. Have the sender write this tariff code on the package: 4901.10.00 is for prints and books. You can see the fee is "FREE" on the harmonized tariff schedule, here: hts.usitc.gov/search?query...