Since 1977

Rupert Kinnard

Cartoonist. Designer. Trailblazer.

Home of the Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé — the world's first ongoing Black, queer comic-strip characters — and five decades of Cathartic Comics.

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The Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé

Fifty years, four panels

  1. 1977

    The Brown Bomber debuts at Cornell College — and comes out on the funny pages.

  2. 1983

    Co-founds Just Out, Oregon's first LGBTQ publication, and designs its award-winning look.

  3. 1992

    B.B. and the Diva collects the strips, with a foreword by Marlon Riggs.

  4. 2025

    "Ooops… I Just Catharted!" earns an Eisner Award nomination.

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This is Rupert Kinnard, a brand new site by Malist (Dev) that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here

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Welcome to Cathartic HQ

After fifty years of telling stories in other people's pages, this corner of the internet is mine. Gallery, dispatches, and the occasional

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Notes from Rose City Comic Con

Signing books at the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts booth and meeting readers who grew up with B.B. and the Diva — some of

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