Lachlan Conn is an artist and illustrator.

Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design. Found thanks to Dense Discovery.

How to Draw a Horse.

Good Books for Troubled Times.

The Monobloc and the Context-Free Object.

I believe it was John Cage who once told me, ‘When you start working, everybody is in your studio – the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas – all are there. But as you continue painting, they start to leave, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you’re lucky, even you leave.’

Philip Guston

While looking up the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff I followed a brief wiki rabbit hole through folkloristics, the Aarne–Thompson classification system, and eventually discovered the wonderful Multilingual Folk Tale Database.

Stand Up for the Future, an anthology of profiles and portraits of young Australians, is out now. I am very pleased to have some drawings in it.

Joe McCulloch reviews Plaza, the new book by Yuichi Yokoyama. Buried in the middle of the piece is the observation that Yokoyama creates his stories “by drawing forward and backward from key images”, which I did not know, and also happens to be how I construct my own comics. Neat.

The All Story: For lovers, dreamers, and weirdos.

Glom Press is raising funds to publish six beautiful new books.

Being an Artist and a Mother by Lauren Weinstein.

Sean T. Collins defines the monumental-horror image.