Andrew Pope
@apope.bsky.social
Employee of the Month March 2018
Half of Belfast Comic Jam
Editor/Publisher at Local Colour Comics
localcolourcomics.bigcartel.com
Half of Belfast Comic Jam
Editor/Publisher at Local Colour Comics
localcolourcomics.bigcartel.com
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Andrew Pope
@apope.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Since I seem to be actually using this site I should probably introduce myself - I'm Andrew Pope, a cartoonist from Belfast. I'm 1/2 of monthly art night Belfast Comic Jam (with @oxeyedkathryn.bsky.social) & I currently run micropress outfit Local Colour Comics, putting out comics by myself & others
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bsky.app/profile/apop... Been thinking about how much I like the title "No, Mean City!" since I first saw this post. (also Andrew's Comics are class so this will doubtless be class)
Don't think I've posted this here yet... Come to my book launch!
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
bsky.app/profile/apop... Been thinking about how much I like the title "No, Mean City!" since I first saw this post. (also Andrew's Comics are class so this will doubtless be class)
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Another shout out for Irish Small Press creators. This time @apope.bsky.social & the rest of Local Colour comics. Low Intensity is a great anthology with fantastic stories from start to end. Can be bought at localcolourcomics.bigcartel.com. Also Andrew is launching his new book this week. Info below
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Another shout out for Irish Small Press creators. This time @apope.bsky.social & the rest of Local Colour comics. Low Intensity is a great anthology with fantastic stories from start to end. Can be bought at localcolourcomics.bigcartel.com. Also Andrew is launching his new book this week. Info below
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Don't think I've posted this here yet... Come to my book launch!
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Don't think I've posted this here yet... Come to my book launch!
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
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"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
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Absolutley obscene. Where is the Justice Minister? As English Councils instruct the removal of union flags from public streetlighting, NI public bodies, the PSNI and DoJ benefit from each others' strategic inertia. Extremists pose a constant and serious danger to children here. [1/3]
‘Israel Defence Forces’ flag appears outside west Belfast primary school
An IDF flag has been erected directly outside a west Belfast primary as the turmoil over the Education Minister’s visit to Israel rumbles on.
www.irishnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Absolutley obscene. Where is the Justice Minister? As English Councils instruct the removal of union flags from public streetlighting, NI public bodies, the PSNI and DoJ benefit from each others' strategic inertia. Extremists pose a constant and serious danger to children here. [1/3]
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Hope Not Hate features Mark Payne, while the Justice Minister and PSNI look away.
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hope Not Hate features Mark Payne, while the Justice Minister and PSNI look away.
Don't think I've posted this here yet... Come to my book launch!
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Don't think I've posted this here yet... Come to my book launch!
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
Saturday 15th November 8pm-10pm at pigment space, 54a Sunnyside Street Belfast.
Free in, books £10, plus exclusive prints and a collage jam that is going to be a lot of fun. BYOB and see ye there!
shorturl.at/Gfsbl
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"Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on" [Guardian US]
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on" [Guardian US]
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It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything
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Nazis aren't known for their intelligence, but they can tell the difference between a true believer vs a weak politician who is caving in.
This will not go well for Harris - not because online lefties are disgusted, but because the fash will never stop squeezing now.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
This will not go well for Harris - not because online lefties are disgusted, but because the fash will never stop squeezing now.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
Govt should reconsider immigration policies, says Harris
Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said Ireland's asylum seeker system is not working and that the Government should reconsider existing policies "in a very serious way".
www.rte.ie
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nazis aren't known for their intelligence, but they can tell the difference between a true believer vs a weak politician who is caving in.
This will not go well for Harris - not because online lefties are disgusted, but because the fash will never stop squeezing now.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
This will not go well for Harris - not because online lefties are disgusted, but because the fash will never stop squeezing now.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...
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More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
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NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin
Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital
share.google
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
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In honour of the Halo Remake Reveal, here's my blog post about how doing these is cheap'n'nasty and a colossal point miss.
tbh if you look at Halo's visuals and see something limited by the tech of its time you're artistically illiterate
tbh if you look at Halo's visuals and see something limited by the tech of its time you're artistically illiterate
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In honour of the Halo Remake Reveal, here's my blog post about how doing these is cheap'n'nasty and a colossal point miss.
tbh if you look at Halo's visuals and see something limited by the tech of its time you're artistically illiterate
tbh if you look at Halo's visuals and see something limited by the tech of its time you're artistically illiterate
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A commission of Yosser from "Boys from the Blackstuff" that I drew for Play For Forever (www.youtube.com/channel/UCn5...), an incredible archive of British films and TV plays 🙏
October 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A commission of Yosser from "Boys from the Blackstuff" that I drew for Play For Forever (www.youtube.com/channel/UCn5...), an incredible archive of British films and TV plays 🙏
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Statement by:
Madden & Finucane Solicitors, Belfast
Madden & Finucane Solicitors, Belfast
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Statement by:
Madden & Finucane Solicitors, Belfast
Madden & Finucane Solicitors, Belfast
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A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings:
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
Not guilty: Soldier F cleared in Bloody Sunday murder trial
A former paratrooper has been cleared of two murders during the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings:
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
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Neil Pinkerton, the animal abuser with a leading role in the racist vigilante patrols in East Belfast, has yet again miraculously escaped prosecution following assault/theft charges being dropped by the PPS in the incident where a homeless man was beaten and his sleeping bag thrown in the Lagan.
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Neil Pinkerton, the animal abuser with a leading role in the racist vigilante patrols in East Belfast, has yet again miraculously escaped prosecution following assault/theft charges being dropped by the PPS in the incident where a homeless man was beaten and his sleeping bag thrown in the Lagan.
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NI Water should be prosecuted for pollution incidents, review finds
NI Water should be prosecuted for pollution incidents, review finds
The report also calls for the creation of an independent environmental regulator.
www.bbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
NI Water should be prosecuted for pollution incidents, review finds
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Starmer and the Met Chief Constable interfered in this case. That's a major red flag and public scandal, abuse of public office, and a collapse of the rule of law.
When transphobes from Graham Linehan to JK Rowling and others are effectively granted immunity that's a problem.
When transphobes from Graham Linehan to JK Rowling and others are effectively granted immunity that's a problem.
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Starmer and the Met Chief Constable interfered in this case. That's a major red flag and public scandal, abuse of public office, and a collapse of the rule of law.
When transphobes from Graham Linehan to JK Rowling and others are effectively granted immunity that's a problem.
When transphobes from Graham Linehan to JK Rowling and others are effectively granted immunity that's a problem.
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Being slightly hungover here >>>>
October 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Being slightly hungover here >>>>
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"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.
October 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.
So does eventbrite just not work at all anymore or what?
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
So does eventbrite just not work at all anymore or what?
Tomorrow!!
The 30th Belfast Comic Jam will be held on Wednesday 15th October, 7-9pm upstairs at The American Bar. Free event, bring your friends, see you there!
October 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Tomorrow!!