I designed this tote bag for www.indiebound.org. It will be available in participating US stores* on #IndieBookstoreDay, this Saturday, April 25!

Dr Smith stealing your robot best friend.

She will only betray you and steal your robot best friend.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Always thought The Lives of Christopher Chant and Magicians of Caprona would make for lovely TV shows.

A Russian children’s book featuring a yellow and red cat perched in a window with a blue and white curtain and potted flower all on a yellow background.

Window Cats of the World 🌎

“Little Book: The Cat’s House,” children’s book published in 1937 in the collection of Princeton University library.

The cover Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector was designed by Paul Sahre. The cover of the Laurent Binet was designed by Alex Merto FWIW.

The cover of Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, published by New Directions. Cover design by Paul Sahre.

The cover of Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Sort of bookalikes... Perspective(s) is out this month in paperback.

Studio Ghibli's 'Stalker'

I don't remember the giant cat in this movie...

All libraries have a different character and setting. Some are primarily for children or primarily for students, or the general public, primarily full of books or microfilms or digitized material or with a café in the basement or a market out front. Libraries are not failing “because they are libraries.” Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. In the modern state there are very few sites where this is possible. The only others that come readily to my mind require belief in an omnipotent creator as a condition for membership. It would seem the most obvious thing in the world to say that the reason why the market is not an efficient solution to libraries is because the market has no use for a library. But it seems we need, right now, to keep re-stating the obvious. There aren’t many institutions left that fit so precisely Keynes’s definition of things that no one else but the state is willing to take on. Nor can the experience of library life be recreated online. It’s not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

There's a really lovely Zadie Smith article about the place of her local library in her community in West London from a few years ago about this...

www.nybooks.com/online/2012/...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by author/illustrator Marie Dorleans from her picturebook The Blanket, translated by Katy Lockwood-Holmes. About a boy afraid of everything without his blanket. Hand-drawn with graphite pencil & watercolour & finished digitally. Floris Bks 23 April. @florisbooks.bsky.social

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

New Yorker cover Description: Rabbits going through an art gallery looking at paintings of eggs.

James Stevenson
New Yorker
April 1, 1972

A cartoon illustration of a dog version of Godzilla standing in the middle of a city with a bone in its mouth. Caption reads "Dogzilla"

Canine kaiju. #grickledoodle #godzilla #monsters #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Old one, but apropo

Ooh hello @designreviewed.com book. Back the absolute heck out of this. vol.co/collections/...

X-ray of Robert Rauschenberg's artwork "Monogram," showing an angora goat and tire in profile

In doing an online image search I stumbled across this X-ray that conservators took of Rauschenberg's "Monogram" in 2016, and only now am I realizing how much I needed this image

SPINE-March Book Covers We Love! Welcome to March’s Book Covers We Love! The full list is comprised of a selection of covers reviewed by a panel including Co-Founder of Chapman & Wilder, Cherie Chapman ; Freelance Designer Luis...

Here's SPINE's Book Covers We Love for March:

spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS LOOKING AT A BOOKSHELF, THE ad c FALLING OVER NANCY: THOSE SHELVES LOOK SO MESSY P2- NANCY SEES HER DOG SLEEPING P3- NANCY SEES HER CAT ALSO SLEEPING P4 NANCY : MUCH NEATER NANCY HAS PLACED HER DOG AND HER CAT ON THE BOOKSHELF, TO ACT AS BOOKENDS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 29,1948

Book Covers of Note, March 2026 Hey. It’s almost spring. Hang in there! I took a long-planned week off in March, so this month’s post was somewhat cobbled together around that trip and somehow we’ve ended up wit…

Lots and lots of lovely book covers in this month's post!

www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/03...

SPINE-ABCD Awards 2026! The 13th Annual Academy of British Cover Design awards took place last night (March 5th) at Gigi‘s in Hoxton and was attended by the best and brightest in the design community. Jamie Keenan was there ...

Vyki Hendy recaps last night's Academy of British Cover Design Awards

spinemagazine.co/articles/abc...

Hey, congratulations!

She Who Remains by Rene Karabsh; cover design by Sarah Schulte (Sandorf Passage / January 2026)

The Slip by Lucas Schaefer; design by Jack Smyth (Simon & Schuster / June 2025)

Bookalikes...

Book Covers of Note, February 2026 Hey. I hope you’re keeping safe and well, especially my friends and colleagues in snowy NYC. Thanks to everyone who helped with images and design credits this month — it’s been a …

Here's my book cover round-up for February!

www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/02...

#books #design

Book Covers of Note, February 2026 Hey. I hope you’re keeping safe and well, especially my friends and colleagues in snowy NYC. Thanks to everyone who helped with images and design credits this month — it’s been a …

Here’s February’s book covers post!

www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/02...

Presenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.

Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

Tom Gauld cartoon on Wuthering Heights for the Guardian

Well maybe this too...

I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.

Dude Watching with the Brontës comic strip by Kate Beaton, collected in Hark! A Vagrant.

The only Brontë commentary I need

Illustration from The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen published by Candlewick

More snow in Toronto...