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Book stuff. Manager of expectations. Toronto. He/him. www.casualoptimist.com
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Tom Gauld
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I drew the cover for the latest
@newyorker.com
More here:
www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2026-06-29
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Damien Owens
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Aw! Beautiful message from my daughters on my Father’s Day card: ‘We have come to accept that you are probably doing your best.’
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Postcard From The Past
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Daddy will explain about these stones.
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Tom Gauld
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My latest books cartoon for
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PGC Books
3 days ago
Listen to Danish author Solvej Balle in conversation with Mattea Roach on CBC Radio's Bookends!
@ndbooks.bsky.social
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Solvej Balle’s books highlight how to make the most of life while stuck in a time loop | CBC Books Bookends
The Danish author discussed her series, On the Calculation of Volume, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/bookends/solvej-balles-books-highlight-how-to-make-the-most-of-life-while-stuck-in-a-time-loop-9.7237545
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Chris Power
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I wrote about King Éric for
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Paperback of the week: Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals by Valenti...
The French author eulogises every goal Cantona scored for Man Utd during his headline-grabbing five years with the club
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/paperback-of-the-week-eric-cantonas-82-goals-by-valentin-deudon
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kottke.org
4 days ago
How Stamps Get Designed. A short video "about the history behind US postage stamps and how they are designed and produced".
[kottke.org]
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How Stamps Get Designed
Art director Antonio Alcalá, one of four art directors employed by the USPS, talks a little bit about the history behind US postage stamps and how they are designed and produced.
https://kottke.org/16/12/how-stamps-get-designed
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Dean Frey
5 days ago
Robert Leighton New Yorker February 24, 2013
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Dean Frey
5 days ago
For M. C. Escher’s birthday: Saul Steinberg New Yorker September 2, 1961
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
7 days ago
Oooh hello
www.abramsbooks.com/product/art-...
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Art of Cartoon Saloon: 25 Years The Official Retrospective of the Award-Winning Irish Animation Studio behind The Secret of Kells, Wolfwalkers, and Song of the Sea
The official visual retrospective of the first 25 years of Cartoon Saloon, the award-winning, internationally renowned Irish animation studio behind The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Puffin Rock, ...
https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/art-of-cartoon-saloon-25-years_9781419750113/
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Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️
9 days ago
mo rocco mo problems sorry i'm trying to remove it
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Dean Frey
10 days ago
#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
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Ward Jenkins
10 days ago
From my own collection - Kodak negative envelope illustrations, early 1960s. Scanned from an envelope that came from my Dad's side of the family.
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Dean Frey
about 1 year ago
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
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Alexandra Lange
14 days ago
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.
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Rabih Alameddine
23 days ago
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Baltic Sea, Ruegen, 1996
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Dean Frey
18 days ago
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.
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Le Monde in English
19 days ago
Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
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Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
The French-Iranian 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2026/06/04/marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56_6754122_15.html
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Ward Jenkins
18 days ago
RIP to the real one, MarJane Satrapi. 💔
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Here's my latest book cover round-up!
www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/05...
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Book Covers of Note, May 2026
Hi. Hello. I hope you’re all keeping well. This month seems to have flown by so I apologise for rather rushing this out at the last minute. I was reminded this week there are people in the wo…
https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/05/28/book-covers-of-note-may-2026/
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The Casual Optimist
26 days ago
The latest instalment of SPINE's Book Covers We Love is here!
spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...
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SPINE-May Book Covers We Love!
Welcome to May’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 Luisa ...
https://spinemagazine.co/book-covers-we-love/27052026
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Asher Perlman
28 days ago
Mine in the June 1, 2026 issue of The New Yorker
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kottke.org
about 1 month ago
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]
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Free admission and discounted overnight stays with Parks Canada
Parks Canada is offering free admission and discounted overnight stays during select dates this winter and in summer 2026.
https://parks.canada.ca/voyage-travel/conseils-tips/choisis-canada-choose/admission-camping
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Dean Frey
about 1 month ago
Edward Steed New Yorker September 10, 2018
#WorldBeeDay
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Sadly this doesn't appear to be available in Canada, but you can watch it for free on Kanopy...
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Josh Cook
about 1 month ago
I shared some thoughts about how social media can work
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kottke.org
about 2 months ago
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.
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The Booksellers | Full Documentary | WATCH FOR FREE
SUBSCRIBE TO WATCH MORE FREE MOVIES: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSGF A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world. DIRECTOR: D.W. Young ------ ABOUT SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS: Samuel Goldwyn Films is a major, independently owned and operated motion-picture company that develops, produces and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM17mX_C0Cw
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kottke.org
about 2 months ago
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]
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Unsolicited / Jenny Volvovski
Jenny Volvovski is a designer by day and asleep by night.
https://www.jennyvolvovski.com/category/unsolicited
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Comics in the Golden Age
about 2 months ago
Will Eisner's The Spirit from May 4, 1952. Written by Jules Feiffer and drawn by Al Wenzell.
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Hello Monday, my old friend...
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Here are my April book cover picks!
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Tom Gauld
2 months ago
I designed this tote bag for
www.indiebound.org
. It will be available in participating US stores* on
#IndieBookstoreDay
, this Saturday, April 25!
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Tom Gauld
2 months ago
my latest books cartoon for
@theguardian.com
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Sarah Archer
2 months ago
Window Cats of the World 🌎 “Little Book: The Cat’s House,” children’s book published in 1937 in the collection of Princeton University library.
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Sort of bookalikes... Perspective(s) is out this month in paperback.
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Nicolette Jones
2 months ago
#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.
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Alexandra Petri
3 months ago
the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow
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Dean Frey
3 months ago
James Stevenson New Yorker April 1, 1972
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Graham Annable
3 months ago
Canine kaiju.
#grickledoodle
#godzilla
#monsters
#cartoon
#art
#drawing
#funny
#humor
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LEE GATLIN
3 months ago
Old one, but apropo
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
3 months ago
Ooh hello
@designreviewed.com
book. Back the absolute heck out of this.
vol.co/collections/...
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Michael Lobel
3 months ago
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
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The Casual Optimist
3 months ago
Here's SPINE's Book Covers We Love for March:
spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...
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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...
https://spinemagazine.co/book-covers-we-love/30032026
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
3 months ago
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 29,1948
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Lots and lots of lovely book covers in this month's post!
www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/03...
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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…
https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/03/25/book-covers-of-note-march-2026/
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The Casual Optimist
4 months ago
Vyki Hendy recaps last night's Academy of British Cover Design Awards
spinemagazine.co/articles/abc...
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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 ...
https://spinemagazine.co/articles/abcd-awards-2026
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Bookalikes...
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The Casual Optimist
4 months ago
Here's my book cover round-up for February!
www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/02...
#books
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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 …
https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/02/26/book-covers-of-note-february-2026/
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