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Mad Rupert

@madrupert.bsky.social

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Comics drawer, concept artist, less than 5 feet tall! Currently working in games 🎮🎮🎮 Links and contact info: https://linktr.ee/madrupert Married to @gforgannon.bsky.social 💖💖

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · Oct 17

Pinned post! I've been writing and drawing comics for over a decade and recently started work as a concept artist for games! Mad is short for Madeline, I'm not actually angry!

Links to other socials: linktr.ee/madrupert
Read my webcomic: www.sakana-comic.com

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · 1d

Only the most talented comic artists with the best opinions can make something exactly to their own tastes 10 times in a row 😎👏

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Bonedust Press @bonedustpress.bsky.social · 2d

✨The Traitor & The Wretch is out!!✨

By @mythjae.bsky.social @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social & @fusspot.rip

Grab the ebook or the luxurious silver foil version from our website! (shipping in the U.S. only)
www.bonedustpress.com/shop

It's also available to libraries, so stop by and request a copy!

The front cover illustration for The Traitor & The Wretch drawn by the amazing Amy Phillips. The book is written by Jasmine walls and internally illustrated by Rowan MacColl

A photo of the exclusive paperback with shiny silver foiling on the cover.

A photo of a two-page spread, showing off one of Rowan MacColl's lovely illustrations

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · 11d

this is the pen I've use to ink all my comics too!!! 🥹👌

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 16d

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theo stultz @theoplum.bsky.social · Apr 3

started work on my comic for sbcf '25. medieval fantasy romance again... it's about ghosts haunting two weird™️ girls who work among the mass of ladies-in-waiting to an unseen princess. one of them may be psychic and the other one is definitely cursed

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · 19d

CONGRATS AAAAA!!!! Flip is such an amazing book and you worked so hard!!! 🥹💖🔥

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 19d

GUYS, FLIP IS OUT TODAY!!! 🥳🎉🎈 This is my most autobiographical story to date, and so close to my heart!✨

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 20d

My latest graphic novel, Flip, is out tomorrow! ✨

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · Nov 15

Pumpkin and squash

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Star Rose ⭐️🏳️‍⚧️ @thebratqueen.bsky.social · Apr 1

They're making the sunsets transgender!

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 24d

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 24d

⭐ FLIP LAUNCH EVENT! ⭐
September 23 @ Black Pearl Books

- talk + signing ✒️
- Discover the origins and inspirations behind FLIP ✨
- Find out what Check, Please! readers should expect 📚
- See the debut of this graphic novel!!!! 🎉

I'M SO HYPE!!!!

www.blackpearlbookstore.com/event-detail...

A flyer for a talk/signing @ Black Pearl Books in Austin, Texas. The talk/signing is for FLIP, the new graphic novel from Ngozi Ukazu.

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just a reminder I'll be at SPX table W83 with @ngoziu.com this coming weekend!!

Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sorry I've been so quiet! I'm working full time in concept art now and we're moving at the end of the month! My store is closed! I'm a little too fried for comics atm! BUT!! I'll be at SPX with @ngoziu.com in September at table W83! Come see us!!

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 28d

✨️SPX 2025 Schedule!✨️

Tabling @ W83 with @madrupert.bsky.social

Signing at W87 from 1-2pm!
You can buy an early copy of FLIP! 🎉

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · 29d

Omg hope I see you!! 😃

Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · Sep 12

👀👀 Okage mentioned

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erin kubo @erinkubo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Worm Wizard 🐛

A small postcard sized painting in gouache and pen depicting a tiny wizard with a star wand riding atop a pink wormlike creature under the cover of leaves.

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · Sep 8

HAPPY BDAY LIZ!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just a reminder I'll be at SPX table W83 with @ngoziu.com this coming weekend!!

Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · Aug 20

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🧍‍♂️🚪Hannah🪝🚗🚪 @spectrumstungun.bsky.social · Aug 11

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🧍‍♂️🚪Hannah🪝🚗🚪 @spectrumstungun.bsky.social · Aug 11

VENUS
a mini comic about girls night uniting us all
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tzaro 🌙💤 @tzaro.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Bulgilhan Press @bulgilhanpress.com · Aug 26

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · Aug 25

FLIP, my next book, comes out next month! Sep. 23!

I wrote this story for nerdy Black girls socialized in environments that minimized them. I was terrified that people wouldn't get it. But people *have* gotten it. This silly & heartfelt story is SO different from CHECK PLEASE but you'll love it!

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · Aug 25

ICYMI:
- SPX with @madrupert.bsky.social at table W83! 🎉
- Black Pearl Books = signing on Sept 23! 🎉
- NEW YORK COMIC CON! 🎉

ngoziu @ngoziu.com · Aug 19

FLIP comes out Sept 23rd and I'M GOING ON TOUR THIS FALL TO PROMOTE IT!!! ✨ (And this is missing 2 stops that I can't announce yet. @_@) Am I coming to your city?

✨ ngoziu.com/events ✨

A graphic promoting the FLIP festival tour in 2025, which hits several cites including Bethesda, MD for the small press expo and New York City for New York Comic Con

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