Edit: wow this blew up. i dont have anything to promote but i made a response to the most common replies ive gotten to this as well as my thoughts on the direction the web has been heading. you can read it here if you like <3

[Image ID: A screenshot of the youtube popup that appears if you use an ad blocker. It consists of a title, then three bullet points, then two buttons. It has been modified to read: Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube's Terms of Service

it looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don't you know that by watching youtube you entered into a contract?

We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. we paid good money to be the only game in town.

now that there are no other options, we can start to make that money back however we like. So turn your webcam on so our advertisers know you're paying attention The two buttons read "let us program your brain" and "foot the bill directly" /.End ID]

Don't forget to open the first door on your Samuel Beckett Advent Calendar today!

Samuel Beckett, New York, 1964 - by Steve Schapiro (1934 -2022), American

A Halloween cartoon for New Scientist

My very last comic for The Nib! End of an era! Transcription below the cut. instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book / redbubble

Usagi Yojimbo by Paul Pope, Tillie Walden and Simon Gane

Stanislaw Fernandes, 1976 cover art.

Yakup Aydin

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

20 Years of Science Fiction Conventions

Because I am the sort of nerd who keeps track of these things, I will note that today marks the 20th anniversary of the first time I ever attended a science fiction convention. On August 28, 2003, having sold Old Man’s War to Tor at the beginning of that year, I decided it was time to meet my future audience and headed to Toronto, Canada to attend that year’s Worldcon, Torcon 3. I went to the…

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Milestone Monday

On this Milestone Monday, August 28, we’re celebrating the birthday of American illustrator Tasha Tudor (1915-2008). Tudor spent her life living in New England engrossed in nature and living a simplistic and self-reliant life consisting primarily of painting, husbandry, and weaving. In her 1937 engagement announcement she asserted her plan to “make illustration her life work” and within the year had been professionally published. In 1945, Tudor received a Caldecott Honor for her Mother Goose illustrations cementing her value and talent within the publishing world.  

Among the nearly one hundred books Tudor illustrated, we are lucky to have four in our holdings, including A Round Dozen, stories by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1963 by The Viking Press, which includes a forward by children’s librarian and editor Anne Thaxter Eaton. Tudor’s drawings perfectly accompany Alcott’s stories of curious children, anthropomorphism, and delightful characters. Her figures, animals, and landscapes draw the reader in with their charming realism providing a unique visual experience that one can imagine echoes Tudor’s New England lifestyle.  

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-- Jenna, Special Collections Graduated Intern

Possibly my favorite Jack Kirby panel ever

watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

The complete collection has even more cover paintings and I'm agogggg

We used this art on our Hardback edition many years ago!

A cartoon for New Scientist.

Horacio Salinas Blanch

Wood Engraving Wednesday

PAUL NASH

British painter, war artist, designer, illustrator, and wood engraver Paul Nash (1889-1946) was influential in the development of modern English art and was a prominent member for the Society of Wood Engravers that was co-founded by his younger brother John Nash in 1920.

In the 1920s, he began to produce wood-engraved illustrations for works by noted English authors, including this collection of character studies, Cotswold Characters by English poet and playwright John Drinkwater (1882-1937), published in New Haven, Connecticut, by Yale University Press in 1921. These were Nash's first set of wood engravings to be published as book illustrations.

Besides publishing his first wood-engraved book illustrations, 1921 was a very significant year in Nash's short life. In that year, Nash's close friend, the artist and designer Claud Lovat Fraser, died; Nash displayed his textile designs at an exhibition at Heal's in London; and he began exhibiting a series of health issues related to war trauma that we would call PTSD today, which occasioned his move to Dymchurch in southeast England for his health, where he would produce an important series of seawall and seascape paintings.

Our copy of Cotswold Characters is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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by Japanese illustrator Ryohei Matsumoto