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...

LOVE looking at book covers. I like the collage covers of "Slow Poison" (designer: Arsh Raziuddin) and the Mishima book (John Gall). Also like the Erpenbeck (Oliver Munday). "Food Person" (Janet Hansen) is quite fun. Also "Time and Chance" (Joan Wong) and "Casanova 20" (Victoria Maxfield).

Here’s my look back at some of the book covers and design trends of 2025 www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/12...

Here are Adrian Curry's picks of the best movie posters of 2025 for MUBI: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

What's the best book *review* you wrote, read, edited, or published this year? I'm rounding them up again for Lit Hub. (Must have a 2025 pub date, no exceptions.)

If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!

End of year lists are hard.

On the subject of best of the year lists, here's a gift link for the NYT's 100 Notable Books of 2025 too... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

Here's a gift link to the Globe 100 for the Canadian book folks: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b287550...

More publishers should do this!

And here are Lit Hub's November cover picks: lithub.com/the-15-best-...

Here are SPINE's November book cover picks! spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Bridget Riley and the pleasure of looking. With her mesmeric, geometric work, now on show at Turner Contemporary, the British artist hopes the “eye can travel over the surface” like it “moves over nature”. https://bit.ly/4rq9h5A

I'm a total sucker for the maps on the backs of old Dell books.

My review of the third part of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume - one of the most exciting things happening in fiction right now observer.co.uk/culture/book...

This phone in Barry's Bay, Ontario is on the highway where the payphone madness began over four years ago. I've been past this grocery store many times since but somehow only spotted the phone in August. A friendly watchman was proud of it (Chamonix57N1, Schneider 180mmf5.6 APO Symmar, Kodak TXP320)

Monocle on 3 independent publishers with distinctive cover designs monocle.com/culture/char...

When you think 'I should probably post more from my sketchbook' and then you look at the sketchbook and realise that since you got a dog two years ago your brain has turned into 90% dog

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com

From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

New post: Updating Albertus for the City of London wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

Here's the last of my monthly cover round-ups for the year...

Opens tomorrow!

Today is Robert Rauschenberg's centenary; a wildly inventive & influential artist, he was born on this day in 1925. To mark the occasion, a thread celebrating his love of animals. First up, Rauschenberg working in the studio with his dog Laika, in about 1968. Laika looking really chill here

“Books need to have someone loudly clamoring behind the scenes to rise above the general masses" The NYT talks to founders Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo about their indie press Hagfish (Gift link) : www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

László Krasznahorkai covers by the Office of Paul Sahre for @ndbooks.bsky.social

the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now

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I love this book...

This is of niche industry interest, but here goes: The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%. Why does this matter?

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

Here is my late look at some of September's more interesting book covers: www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/09...

My book covers post is late again. It should be done by the end of the day but it does feel a little redundant after SPINE and LitHub have already posted 30 or so covers for the month between them...

These new illustrated covers by Neasden Control Centre for the Vintage Classics editions of Julio Cortázar are great! Art direction by Suzanne Dean. www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/09...

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books p.s. My new book of science cartoons is here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

RESTORATION is a "masterful - a ghost story where the ghost is capitalism’s oldest accomplice: patriarchy." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...