I drew the cover for the latest @newyorker.com More here: www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2026-06-29

Aw! Beautiful message from my daughters on my Father’s Day card: ‘We have come to accept that you are probably doing your best.’

Daddy will explain about these stones.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Listen to Danish author Solvej Balle in conversation with Mattea Roach on CBC Radio's Bookends! @ndbooks.bsky.social

I wrote about King Éric for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

How Stamps Get Designed. A short video "about the history behind US postage stamps and how they are designed and produced". [kottke.org]

Robert Leighton New Yorker February 24, 2013

For M. C. Escher’s birthday: Saul Steinberg New Yorker September 2, 1961

Oooh hello www.abramsbooks.com/product/art-...

mo rocco mo problems sorry i'm trying to remove it

#RIP David Hockney 📷 Arnold Newman, Polaroid, London, 1978 "Hockney’s life can be seen as one long quest for brighter sunshine, stronger colours, sharper light." - Jonathan Jones

From my own collection - Kodak negative envelope illustrations, early 1960s. Scanned from an envelope that came from my Dad's side of the family. #wardsmorguefile

Remembering Brigid Brophy on her birthday 🎂 📷 J. S. Lewinski, 1968 "Brigid Brophy well understood that anyone with a claim to a unique, wide-ranging and non-frivolous position in British culture is a dangerous dissident." - Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social

Some of you know I am a hockey watcher and it continues to amuse me that there is a goalie named COOPER BLACK in my team's organization but no other graphic design types seem to watch hockey.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Baltic Sea, Ruegen, 1996

Fernand Leduc Exaltation chaud-froid, 1973 The great Quebec abstract painters - Leduc, Riopelle & Borduas, among others - loom large in Canadian painting. Along with the Group of Seven, they ensure that Canada punches above its weight in 20th century painting.

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

RIP to the real one, MarJane Satrapi. 💔

Here's my latest book cover round-up! www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/05...

The latest instalment of SPINE's Book Covers We Love is here! spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Mine in the June 1, 2026 issue of The New Yorker

New coworker.

Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer! “From June 19 to September 7, no fees apply for: admission for all visitors to all national historic sites, national parks, and national marine conservation areas operated by Parks Canada.” [parks.canada.ca]

Edward Steed New Yorker September 10, 2018 #WorldBeeDay

Sadly this doesn't appear to be available in Canada, but you can watch it for free on Kanopy...

I shared some thoughts about how social media can work

The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film about antiquarian and rare book dealers; you can watch the whole movie for free on YouTube. [youtube.com]

Designer Jenny Volvovski’s collection of unsolicited book cover designs. “I really wanted to design book covers but didn’t have any book cover work. So I hired myself to redesign my personal library.” [jennyvolvovski.com]

Will Eisner's The Spirit from May 4, 1952. Written by Jules Feiffer and drawn by Al Wenzell.

Hello Monday, my old friend...

Here are my April book cover picks!

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

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

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

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

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

#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

James Stevenson New Yorker April 1, 1972

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/...

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

Here's SPINE's Book Covers We Love for March: spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 29,1948

Lots and lots of lovely book covers in this month's post! www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/03...

Vyki Hendy recaps last night's Academy of British Cover Design Awards spinemagazine.co/articles/abc...

Bookalikes...

Here's my book cover round-up for February! www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/02... #books #design