I check a lot of the best books of the year via editorial sites (Esquire, GQ, New Yorker, etc) and see what overlaps might interest me and a lot of the times I actually do but books for the cover (if the story seems remotely interesting).

Cover reveal day is the best day (design by David Wilson; Belt, Dec ‘24)

Bought this book just for the cover and discovered he's Kent State alum from the VCD program.

It was just too good to wait!

Lol. If you ACTUALLY think about it, libraries are the backbone of nearly every (traditionally published) authors' sales. There are over 17K public libraries in the US, and 100k libraries of every kind. They *all* buy books. And sometimes buy more when the first set wear out! Libraries are AMAZING.

I never introduced myself on here. I'm David Wilson and I make comics (usually with @mistywilsonwrites.bsky.social@atrubek.bsky.socialworkdavidwork.com :)

August will also bring the publication of this banger

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Some recent portraits I did for The Boston Globe's Behind The Book section.

In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, the two times The Far Side and Dennis the Menace accidentally had their captions switched. I laughed for an hour the first time I saw these.