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R I C H I E P O P E

Growing up in Newport News VA, I played outside in neighborhoods of odd characters, patchy grass, abandoned lots and forgotten alleyways. I played inside with American and Japanese cartoon shows, comic books and video games. As I document both life and imagination in my sketchbook, my work intertwines the world around me with the world inside my head.

E D U C A T I O N

Virginia Commonwealth University (2004-2009)

The Art Department (2011-2012)

R E C O G N I T I O N

CMYK Vol. 44

Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition 2009

5th Annual Richmond Illustrators Club Juried Show (gold medal)

L E C T U R E S
Personal Vision through Experience: A Conversation on Sketchbooks with Jeffrey Alan Love and Friends (Virginia Commonwealth University 2012)

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Prints of Manga Publishing is Dying are now available in my store! No Astroboys were hurt in the making of this illustration.

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