A transmission from the deep south.
We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.
— An excerpt from Franny and Zooey by the late J.D. Salinger (1919-2010). (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Stocking stuffer: Tom Gauld’s The Gigantic Robot, the illustrated tale of an impressive secret weapon whose promise goes unfulfilled. (via Drawn!)
Jimmy Turrell’s book cover illustration for Beat IV: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a fully illustrated edition of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem published by the Heart Agency to showcase the work of their illustrators. The book, designed by Pentagram, won a D&AD Award for illustration and book design.
What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who’s up and who’s down, but what someone has done and if they meant it.
— A single line from a terrific email response by author Dave Eggers regarding creativity, criticism, selling out and “the unshakable need to reduce”. You’ll be glad you read this. (via Wilson Miner)
Hunter S. Thompson and Anita Bejmuk photographed in Aspen in 2002 by Jonathan Becker for Vanity Fair. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
— Cormac McCarthy during a lengthy interview with The Wall Street Journal’s John Jurgensen. (via John Gruber)
Jon Klassen’s submission to Susan Rich’s compendium of “instant frights”, Half-Minute Horrors. (via Carson Ellis)
Can’t get enough of the fantastic illustrations being submitted to Cory Godbey’s Maurice Sendak tribute site, Terrible Yellow Eyes. This one is by Jacob Souva. (via Children’s Books)
I’d buy this if I could: Philadelphia designer Mikey Burton’s thesis project is an integrated branding campaign based around the illustrative reinterpretation of classic book covers directed toward junior-high students. The rest of his portfolio is equally polished. (via Grain Edit)
Part of an Edward Gorey tribute by Tom Gauld. (via Laura Serra)
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
