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Two Designers, Two CoversLit Hub has posted an interesting conversation between designers Pablo Delcan and Jamie Keenan . Nominally it’s a...
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The End of SummerOof. This is a little too on the nose from Roz Chast (for The New Yorker ).
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‘To Be Read’ by Tom GauldTom Gauld for The Guardian . My ‘to be read’ wall feels particularly bad at the moment. I did, however, read an ARC...
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Where Hollywood’s Printed Props Are MadeSpecial effects designer Adam Savage ( Mythbusters ) visits the warehouse of The Earl Hayes Press , a prop house that’s been...
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Book Covers of Note, July 2023Even though it’s still just about July — a supposedly “quiet” month in publishing — I’m running late once...
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Sergio García Sánchez’s “On the Same Page”Sergio García Sánchez ‘s cover illustration, coloured by his partner Lola Moral , for the recent fiction issue of The New Yorker...
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Corrupting SoulsTom Gauld ‘s Midsummer’s Eve cartoon for The Guardian is from last month (obviously!), but I’m borrowing it to make...
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Book Covers of Note, June 2023Hey, I hope you are keeping safe and well. There’s a wide variety of styles this month, but pink, yellow and orange are something of a minor...
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Tragedy After TragedyA powerful cover for June 23 2023 edition of Guardian Weekly . Art direction by Andrew Stocks .
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Ghost WriterCartoon by Graham Annabelle . And just a reminder, Graham AKA Grickle has a new graphic novel for kids called Eerie Tales from the...
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Nighthawks at the Library by Tom GauldTom Gauld for The Guardian . (Is this a Semisonic joke as well as an Edward Hopper one? Or am I just showing my age?)
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Book Covers of Note, May 2023I hope you’re keeping safe and well wherever you find yourself. A couple of people sent me posts about “blob” covers this month....
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R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Perennial”It feels like we are right on the cusp of spring turning into summer here in Toronto (rain all day Saturday, beautiful sunshine Sunday) so...
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Matt Blease Design Classics Illustrations for The Conran ShopI love these Matt Blease illustrations celebrating iconic furniture designs for The Conran Shop in London. I think my favourite is...
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Book Covers of Note, April 2023Hey, I hope you’re safe and well wherever you are. Here’s this month’s covers post. All the Houses I’ve...
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Free LibraryCartoon by Graham Annabelle . Graham has a new graphic novel for kids called Eerie Tales from the School of Screams available in...
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Book Covers of Note, March 2023I hope you’re keeping safe and well. There’s quite a nice mix of covers this month (I think?). There’s some fiction, nonfiction,...
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Book Covers of Note, February 2023I hope you’re all safe and well. Here are the book covers that caught the attention this month… B.F.F. by Christie...
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Book Covers of Note, January 2023A bit of a quick and dirty post for a wet and dirty January. Sorry. Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor; design by Gregg Kulick...
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Black Holes?Tom Gauld for New Scientist . Feels about right.
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Notable YA Covers of 2022I should, at this point, rename this post “Young Adult Book Covers I Saw Last Year, Quite Liked, and Could Find Some Credits For.” It...
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ABCD XFounded by designers Jon Gray and Jamie Keenan , the Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) held its first book cover design...
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The Book Cover ReviewDesigner David Pearson and friends have launched a new website for 500-word (or thereabouts) reviews of book covers from the past and...
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Notable Book Covers of 20222022. Twenty twenty-two. Two thousand and twenty-two… “Where did it go?” Or, sobbing, “ are we done yet?” It feels like both. It’s...
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CoffeeMultiple people sent me this 2016 Seth Fleishman cartoon after The New Yorker re-posted it to Instagram recently. I’m not exactly...
