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

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

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

The only Brontë commentary I need

More snow in Toronto...

This morning...

Designer-turned-author Oliver Munday and designer Chris Brand discuss the creative process behind the cover of Oliver's new novel Head of Household lithub.com/when-a-book-...

I don't know how you square that what people click is not necessarily the same as what they value/want. But one is easy to measure and the other is not.

Lit Hub's best book covers of January: lithub.com/the-10-best-...

Incredible photo by Victor J. Blue

Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

My latest round-up of new and recent book covers is up on the blog: www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/01...

This is a really interesting selection. A lot of the covers you would expect, but still some surprises... lithub.com/the-best-boo...

Notable YA Covers of 2025 - this really is a post for fans of illustrated book covers: www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/01... #books #illustration #YA

Mieko Kawakami on the cover of @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Here's my look back at some of the YA book covers that caught my eye last year. There's a ton of great art and illustration - particularly fantasy and horror - if that's your thing... www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/01...

"Fuck AI! Film poster art forever!" @seekandspeak.bsky.social's Notable Film Posters of 2025 www.seekandspeak.com/notable-film...

I loved loved loved loved LOVED this book

This was GREAT, and it brings my "weird books about whaling" canon title count up to 2. #booksky

Here are Spine’s best book covers of 2025! spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Gayle has been working on this book for two decades—“long-awaited” hardly covers it, at least for publishing nerds

Mark Sinclair weighs in on AI vs the actual real work of design, and chooses his favourite book covers of 2025 for Creative Review: www.creativereview.co.uk/the-best-boo...

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

For the folks waiting for Matt Dorfman’s list for the NYT, here it is (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...

Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones

BEHOLD, my list of the best movie posters of 2025.

Just in case you need a second opinion...