mike popovic

A risograph-style illustration of a snowy owl in light pink with a quarter moon and some stars on a blue sky

Snowy #SuperbOwl

A photo of Santa Claus at a gas station in Maine, holding a pump and looking toward the camera. The license plate of his blue Toyota reads “HOHO”.

“Flying reindeer? In this economy?”
#christmas

“This throwback dessert will be the ‘death’ of the party. Make it ahead so you have time to harvest fresh souls.” - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Boo York Times Cooking

Drawing of pink jello made in a Bundt-type mold. Marshmallow ghosts are embedded within.

• Gelatinous 2 •
When bringing dessert be undaunted
Create something fit to be flaunted
But don’t frighten the hosts
With inedible ghosts
First make sure your pans aren’t haunted!
#aughost #aughost2025
#ghost #illustration #limerick

A gelatinous cube oozes down a hallway. A green ghost is trapped inside. The cube smiles smugly.

• Gelatinous •
A pink-hued gelatinous cube
Looked like it was squeezed from a tube
A ghost tried his luck
But ended up stuck
“Ye gods, I feel like a noob”
#aughost #aughost2025 #ghost #art #illustration #limerick

Green glowing illustration of a small ghost hovering over a phone, reading some texts, and deciding to nope out.

Flee #AuGhost2025

Black ink line drawing of the oversized and boxy white suit David Byrne famously wears during some perfomances. Instead of David, it is being worn by a Tern, shoulders shrugging as its beak opens in song. Wings peak out from the sleeves, one holding a microphone. One leg is in the air as he dances, webbed feet peeking out from the cuffs. Orange accents on the beak and feet. Did you know the idea for this suit was inspired by Japanese Noh theatre?

David Tern in concert with the Squawking Heads • #music

Drawing of of Ben Grimm aka The Thing from The Fantastic Four. He is proudly holding a large baking dish of peach cobbler above his head, and a few peaches are scattered on the ground. In a spiky speech bubble, he is yelling “IT’S COBBLERING TIME!!!!”

It’s important to have properly themed snacks for movie premiere night! • #FantasticFour

A mid century style drawing of a lamp. The lampshade is removed and next to the lamp. The anthropomorphic exposed light bulb has a surprised look on its face as it tries to cover itself with its hands in vain.

Warning: light nudity

A drawing of a gritty version of Sesame Street. Big Bird grips a knife and looks back suspiciously as Oscar watches from his garbage can. Wormy sits atop the garbage can lid. All characters are drawn in a clearly bootleg style.

Defunding leading to some hard times on Sesame Street

Drawing of a juvenile tapir, sitting with a it’s head turned and its tongue sticking out

Happy #WorldTapirDay !

The phrase “YO!” hand-lettered; the “O” is an illustrated everything bagel. Y🥯!

YO! What’s your favorite bagel shop?

A drawn poster. Top text reads “LESS ELON”. Then a drawing of overlapping melons—cantaloupe, watermelon, and horned melon. Bottom text reads “MORE MELON”. Drawing style is colorful saturated inks with a block print effect.

LESS ELON 🍉🍈 MORE MELON

I had to fix the code at one point about ten years ago after a PHP update but it’s been fine since then! It’s only in danger if someone offers an obscene amount of money for the bedope.com domain, but even then I could probably carve out an exemption for the hiptop subdomain to stay intact.

A line drawing of a wire birdcage. A snail with a pink shell hangs its head out a partially open gate forlornly. “Snail Jail” is written in cursive and one eye of the snail dots the eye in the word jail.

Snail Jail

#illustration #procreate #MaineArtist #DigitalArt #snail

A comic with two snakes, upright facing each other not in a very snakey way, but more in a “two snakes having a conversation at a party in a Far Side comic” way. The green snake on the left is wearing a beaten brown hat and has a coiled whip where its shoulders would be if snakes had shoulders. The other snake is brown with an abstract pattern on it. The green snake says to the brown snake: SO THIS GUY FELL IN THE PIT AND HE'S LIKE "WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES" HAHAHAHA

Raiders of the Lost Ark alternative ending • #movies #comics #YearoftheSnake

An image of a book page with an illustrated bit of text. The text reads: at the end of time and space I deeply hope that there is still one lonely alien monastery out there on one lonely alien asteroid solemnly tolling out a bell until the last breath of the universe that in the language of their most sacred faith sounds exactly like "fuck you in particular, Donald John Trump." from The Limits of Compassion by Catherynne M. Valente

As we head towards the inauguration and beyond, let us recall this quote by @catvalente.bsky.social

An illustration of a green snake with yellow diamond markings. Its body is distended in such a way that it suggests it has just swallowed the numbers 2025. It is sleepy and wearing a pink party hat with orange polka dots.

Good luck in the new year all; I have a feeling it might be a tough one to digest! #YearoftheSnake

An illustration of an anthropomorphic fried egg sliding down a bumpy hill on a snowy day. The egg has a blissful look on its face as it catches air after a dip. Back at the top of the hill you can make out a small snowman. Light snow is falling against a tinted-blue sky. Text reads “egg on a snowy day”

egg on a snowy day

A one-panel comic. Two birds are perched on a collection of houses, sheds, towers, etc. that are formed out of bread items (loaf of bread, bagels, breadsticks, etc.). The breads are covered in various types of seeds. One bird says to the other: "Personally, I prefer the seedy side of town."

Bird talk
#comics

A 2-panel comic. In the first panel, a hand is shaking a can of jellied cranberry sauce. The cranberry blob is shouting “Hooray, I am free!” In the second panel, the cranberry blob sits on a cutting board with several slices of itself on the side. A speech bubble says “Oh No”.

Oh No
#comics

Drawing of a turkey riding a skateboard jumping over a fence. A speech balloon reads “FREEDOM!”

Skate or Die
#turkey #skatelife #comic

A large mecha-turkey vehicle rescues several turkeys via a rope ladder

Hey, where did all the turkeys go?
#turkey #comic #mecha

A comic of two turkeys in a museum drawn in a simple but realistic outline style. On the wall hangs a portrait of a turkey drawn using the traditional hand-tracing method. One turkey says to the other “I don't get modern art—it looks like a 5-year-old did this.”

Turkey Centerpiece

A view from inside a store window with a large green transparent gummi bear filling the center. Looking out the window you see some parked on a village street. Decor suggests winter holiday time.

Opacity:
0—o———100
#newyork

A drawing of a jellied cranberries out of the can, but still in a can shape. A thought bubble reads “I really need to decompress”. The facial expression suggests the cranberries are exhausted.

Take all the time you need this time of year… #stress

A blue truck with the words “Donuts Make Me Happy” painted in white. A large blue donut sculpture looms above.

Truth

An off-white ghost looks down sming at a yellow-orange ghost fitting a jigsaw puzzle-shaped piece of its being into place.

#Aughost • Complete

A risograph-style illustration. A green cactus with two arms is encircled by an orange ghost. The ghost is smelling one of the aromatic pink flowers on the cactus. A small heart emoji appears above the ghost’s head.

Aughost • Aromatic
#aughost #illustration #cactus

Ghostly foam floats in a paper coffee cup with a drawing of a pumpkin on it. A bat flies above and a crescent moons glows in a corner of the sky. A smaller outline of a ghost looks up at the foam. Background is shades of purple.

Aughost • (Pumpkin) Spicy
#aughost #coffee #pumpkinspice