In the late 1990s, Rickheit moved to the Boston area where he was deeply involved with the Zeitgeist Gallery located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A Xeric Foundation grant enabled him to produce a second and revised trade paperback edition of Chloe which received wider distribution and favorable reviews by the comics press.
In 2003, Rickheit produced a color wraparound cover for the zine The Comics Interpreter, which in that issue also published a long interview with him.
More recently, Rickheit has had short stories published in a number of alternative small press comics anthologies and periodicals and in The Stranger weekly.
Rickheit relocated in Philadelphia after the Zeitgeist Gallery shut down in 2006, where he still released the occasional issue of Chrome Fetus, his showcase for his own shorter works.