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Casper Manning
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Cartoonist + Illustrator | Queer + transmasc 🏳️‍⚧️ from the U.K | He/They | Rep’d by:Alice Sutherland-Hawes @ashliterary
Shop: https://caspermanning.etsy.com
I make silly Star Trek comics sometimes
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save me from the Daily Horrors soft Mon Rovîa song
An illustration of a boy tearing up whilst holding a phone. The phone is playing “City on a Hill” by Mon Rovîa
March 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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It’s like that thing where they let the penguins out to see other exhibits but it’s dinosaurs at the museum.

Super thrilled with how these new A4 riso prints turned out!! Grab them at my shop or at MoCCA this weekend!
Photo of a risograph printed illustration of a dinosaur skeleton. The dinosaur is surrounded by lots of storage boxes containing more dino bones and other scientific research. The room the skeleton is in looks like a cluttered back room of a natural history museum. The print is printed in federal blue, sunflower, bright red and teal inks. Close up of the riso print from slide one. The riso texture is more visible. Another close up of the riso print from slide one.
March 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Excited to be tabling again with @kurogyen this spring! Our first event is MoCCA the weekend after next. Table number 61.
Spring 2025 Con schedule with @kurogyen. Moccafest March 15-16, Capital Art Book Fair April 5-6, BICS April 26-27 Illustration of the Moccafest table map. We’re at table 61
March 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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It’s gonna be a long 4 years.
Illustration of a white boy staring grumpily at a computer. An orange hand is shooting the middle finger from the computer screen right into the face of the boy. Orange speech balloons come from the computer saying “Nazis but they’re tech bros?? Anti-trans bills, general fascist bullshit, we hate you and all your friends, also pay us money”
January 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Happy new year! Their year technically doesn’t start for another month but the snakes want to party NOW.
A bright red illustration of 4 snakes celebrating new years eave. The snakes are coiled up inside various drinks glasses. 3 of the snakes are holding sparklers with their tails. In the middle, a snake in a wine glass says Happy New Year
January 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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A small #comic about eczema and computers.
An illustration of hands covered in a rough skin rash. The skin and rash are coloured in unnatural green hues. The text reads: I have a condition that makes my hands pucker and scar. It hurts. Sometimes it bleeds. It’s just a rather annoying form of eczema. The same hands covered in the rash reach for a computer keyboard. Text reads: recently, it’s spread to my fingertips. Which means that my computer’s fingerpad lock no longer recognises me. Below this panel there is a drawing of a man shouting at a computer. The computer says “your fingies…they seem suspicious” the man shouts “let me in! I have work to do!” An illustration of a computer Lock Screen. The text reads: luckily I know my own damn password so the foolish machine is forced to let me in regardless. Below the man looks at his computer. The computer cheerfully says “oh! It’s you! Why didn’t you say so earlier?” The man has a thought bubble saying “one day I’ll replace you with one of those laptops that unlock with face recognition…”
December 15, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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This riso print is a still a bit of a work in progress (the colors didn’t work out quite as I’d intended) but please enjoy nonetheless!
A risograph illustration of a large workshop filled with neon signs. New signs are being crafted by some kids in bright red jumpsuits. The whole scene is printed in bright neon red, black and teal inks. Closeup of the previous image. One kid is working on a sign at a workbench while another is on the floor. In the foreground there is a bright neon sign saying “Live music” with an arrow Another closeup. Two kids in red jumpsuits are carrying a neon sign advertising a golf club.
November 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Thought bubble was super fun!!
A photo of a comic convention booth. Art prints and books are displayed in a stand above the table. There are two people behind the booth. The signs above their heads identify them as “Casper Manning” and Ray Kao. They are both smiling.
November 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Thrilled to finally be able to shout about this GN I’m working on!!
Casper Manning’s Flying Out, following a teenager who, while spending a summer in their old hometown, realised they do n out identify with the gender they were born as, to Alex Lu at Random House Graphic, at auction, in a two-book deal for publication in summer 2027, by Alice Sutherland-Hawed at ASH Literary (World English)
October 28, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Carefully engineered powerlessness in the face of atrocity.
I put another payment on my nearly maxed-out credit card. False money, false hope. I know we cannot crowdfund our way out of a genocide. There is no amount of money that I can give which will stop the bombs. But what else can I do when people are dying?
May 29, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Here is a little comic for the folks who often find themselves feeling alone. This piece will eventually be a riso zine with a poster on the back but probably not till later in the year!
An orange and blue illustration of star with a heart at the center glowing brightly in space. The title says A Litany for the Lonely. The illustration zooms in on the star. At the center is a glowing person curled up. The text below says: I will not fear my own company. The glowing star person is greeted by various spaceships and satellites. The text reads: I will cherish those around me while they are here. Close up on the star person as they pu a hand to their chest. The text reads: and when they are not, I will cherish myself. Back on earth, a man holds a star chart which includes the star person. On a cork board in the background there is a note that says “new star?”. The text reads: My loneliness does not define me. The man holding the chart is in his office looking out the window at the star. His room is fun of star posters, planet diagrams and telescopes. The text reads: I am not broken or without love. The man focuses his telescope on the star person. Text reads: I peacefully await the next bright moment of connection… Closeup on the telescope viewfinder where we can see the star person smiling at the man. Text reads: …with hands and heart outstretched.
April 3, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Small postcards and large riso prints of this illustration will be available at the cons I’m attending this spring!

Multiple Formats (Boston) March 23 [THIS WEEKEND!]
Capital Art Book Fair (DC) April 6-7
BICS (New York) April 13
A photo of a desk. There are two versions of a printed illustration featuring dinosaur skeletons laid out on the desk. One is small and printed on a laser printer, the other is large and printed on a riso graph printer.
March 20, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Come grab some fun prints and books from me this spring!

March 23rd Multiple Formats Art Book Fair (Boston)
April 6-7th Capital Art Book Fair (DC)
April 13th Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase (New York)
Illustration of a boy with brown hair flexing in his exhibitor outfit. Next to him are drawings of posters, card and comic books. On the left hand side is information about various fairs: March 23rd Multiple Formats Art Book Fair (Boston), April 6-7 Capital Art Book Fair (DC), April 13 Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase
March 13, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Text:A green jacket I found at a thrift store that looked like the one Dean Winchester wore…and invisible ink pen set…homework assignments…socks. Illustration of the jacket, pen set, homework and socks in bright green ink Text: Stolen library books..rocks from the park near my friend’s house. An old Green Day t-shirt. Anything that was too connected to me had to go. Illustration: the books, rocks and t-shirt are drawn in bright green. Text: It was as if by getting rid of all my possessions…I could somehow get rid of the parts of myself that I hated too. Illustration: a hand reaches towards a garbage bag. As the hand pulls the garbage bag up, we can see a little boy is curled up inside the bag. Text: But I still miss that green jacket. And I miss the kid who loved it too. The boy looks at a scrap of green fabric poking out from a garbage can. Below, a young girl is smiling and wearing the Dean Winchester jacket. Speech balloons: Hey! Don’t I look cool?! I found it for 5 bucks! I’m gonna go fight demons!
February 12, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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New short comic! Backpack Or My Desperate Desire to Throw Everything Away. [1/2]
Text: Backpack or My Desperate Desire to Throw Everything Away. Illustration of a green backpack. Text: Every few months, I get in a strange sort of mood where I want to throw out everything I own and move somewhere new with just a backpack. Illustration: a boy with a green backpack does a thumbs up as if he is about to hitchhike. Text: I’ve been doing this since I was little. I would fill the drawers under my bed with crap until I couldn’t stand it anymore…(note: the word myself is crossed out)…and then I’d get a huge garbage bag and throw it all away. This is way before Mari Kondo. Illustration: a young girl puts her toys into the drawers under her bed. At the bottom of the page, another draw is absolutely stuffed with objects. Text: I never quite remembered the things I threw out…just the smell of the plastic garbage bags…and a sense of relief. I lost a few things I really loved that way. Illustration: hands throw garbage while a boy sits sadly outside of the frame looking at an object.
February 12, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Already posted this on insta but here’s a recent illustration I really liked! It’s going to be available as a riso print later this spring!
Detailed illustration of three kids in a large storeroom full of dinosaur bones. There are many boxes stored on shelves and in the rafters. On the floor of the storeroom there a half-finished dinosaur skeleton that the kids are reassembling. The room is bathed in yellow light while the boxes in the ceiling are blue toned.
February 8, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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I promise my real desk is neater than this.
Illustration of a white man wearing a white shirt and brown pants sitting haphazardly in an office chair. His desk, floor and walls are covered in comic pages. Some light is coming in from a small gap in a window on the left. The whole room is tinted slightly green and brown.
August 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM