2025 gift guide & 20% off holiday sale

Hey y’all,

Here’s a list of ideas for holiday gifts or treats for yourself:

1. If you’d like signed and personalized copies of my books, you can order from Bookpeople here in Austin, Texas. I’ll sign as many as you buy, but to get them in time for Christmas, order before December 14th.
   
   

   If you don’t need or want your books signed, you can get them wherever books are sold! My million-selling Steal Like an Artist (check out the fancy hardcover edition) and the matching journal are perennial favorites. Show Your Work! is for people trying to get their work noticed or their business going. Keep Going is my guide to staying creative in chaotic times — great for pretty much everybody these days. You can get the whole trilogy on audiobook for the cost of one book. If you want a “deep cut” for the true weirdo on your list, gift a copy of my CIA-does-haiku poetry collection, Newspaper Blackout.

   

2. I’m offering 20% off paid subscriptions to this newsletter for the rest of the year. You can gift it to someone else or to yourself!
   
   

   I know it can feel weird to give a digital gift, so I made a little zine for gift subscriptions that you can print, fold, and customize. Download it here.

   

3. T-shirts! Hoodies! Onesies! Cotton Bureau is offering free shipping in the US on my two designs until the end of Monday, Dec. 1st. Just use the code THANKYOU25. (Shipping on international orders is 50% off.) Order here.

4. Art books that caught my eye this year: Dan Nadel’s Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, Kelli Anderson’s Alphabet in Motion, Gianni Rodari’s The Grammar of Fantasy, Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy Wears Hats, E Is for Edward: A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey, Sally Mann’s Art Work: On The Creative Life, The Essential Peanuts, Brian Eno and Bette A.’s What Art Does, Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes From Art, and Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols.
   
   

5. One of my favorite publishers, Drawn and Quarterly, is having a holiday flash sale this weekend. They published at least two of my favorite reads this year: Guy Delisle’s Muybridge and Tara Booth’s Processing. (Their reissues of Tove Jansson’s Moomin books make great gifts for readers of all ages.)
   
   

6. New gear in