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NY Times & USA Today best-selling illustrator of kids books and graphic novels. Clio-winning Broadway adman. Penguin Random House • Simon & Schuster • Scholastic • Bloomsbury • Farshore • Highlights. Rep'd by Bookmark Literary. jaycooperbooks.com

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · May 8

Thrilled that The Last Comics On Earth 3: A Song of Swords and Stuffies landed on the USA Today bestseller list... #75! This series is bonkers in the best possible way, with the most fun team in books! #booksky #kidlit #thelastkidsonearth #graphicnovels #comicbooks

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Apr 25

I'll be joining Max Brallier for a store signing to celebrate the release of The Last Comics On Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies next Tuesday at White Whale Books & Coffee in Pittsburgh, PA! (happened to be in town moving my son out of college for the summer! THE SWORD OF DESTINY HATH SPOKEN!)

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Cover reveal: 'You Are the Detective' takes readers on an interactive murder mystery

Ready to get your Sherlock on? Readers can figure out whodunit in the interactive mystery book "You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder."

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Apr 12

The corpse is out of the bag... Coming this September, there's been an impossible murder, and it's up to YOU to solve it. YOU ARE THE DETECTIVE from @tenspeedpress.bsky.social @maureenjohnsonbooks.com and me! Thanks so much @briantruitt.bsky.social and @usatoday.com for the cover reveal! Link below!

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Mar 18

✋ Raise your hand if you're excited for The Last Comics on Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies! When you preorder your copy and submit your receipt you'll receive an epic bookmark pack and a custom keychain! Check the link in our bio to learn more 📚

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A Song of Swords and Stuffies

Preorder The Last Comics on Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies by Max Brallier to receive a bookmark pack and custom keychain!

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Mar 12

Check out the The Illustration Department's woefully wonderful podcast of Edward Gorey's 100th birthday up in Cape Cod. There was a plenteousness of mink coats. Bat-themed turbans portended doom to all. Subscribe to the podcast while you're there... ere you perish. #edwardgorey illustrationdept.com

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Feb 18

Good one.

Nay.

GREAT ONE.

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Feb 11

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 3/20

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Feb 9

What's the antiquarian book???

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Feb 9

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 2/20

#BookSky 💙📚 #20DayBookChallenge

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Feb 8

I'm spending my Saturday graphic novelin' for @simonkids.bsky.social. The grown up artsy version of Saturday Morning cartoons... #booksky #graphicnovel

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Feb 8

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Day 1/20

#BookSky 💙📚 #20DayBookChallenge

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you are in LaGrange NY tomorrow, drop by the
@LaGrangeLibrary for Take Your Child To The Library Day! I'll be drawing, and Diana Murray, author of Unicorn Day & Dinosaur Day, will be reading! (I gotta admit, she's more delightful than me by half.)

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Jan 25

There's a tremendous amount of awful right now in this country, but this one is really personal.

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Jan 25

After the Photoshoot
(With apologies to William Carlos Williams)

This is just to say

I found the mints
You loaned me
At the photoshoot
The next day
In my jeans

And which
You were probably
Saving for clubbing

Forgive me
They were
So very minty

And I had
Really bad
Coffee breath
I’m sure

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Jan 19

I LOVE THAT GAME

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Jan 11

Stone fences make good neighbors... unless of course you're dead, and then who gives a fig?

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Jan 11

I loved "Voted For You" where steamy cowhand Buck secretly voted to uphold women's rights. The local farm goes bankrupt when all the workers are rounded up & deported, but he tips his hat & says, "Don't vote for no snakes & outlaws" as the wind opens his shirt & displays his epic abs. HOT.

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thank you, @lucyvandrew.bsky.social for the kind words, and making our January a bit less bleak as well!

Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social · Jan 8

Just finished this wonderful little book from @maureenjohnsonbooks.com, @jaycooper.bsky.social and @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social. It’s hilarious, dark and brilliantly illustrated! It’s been a rough start to January but this has cheered me up no end!

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Dec 28

Been trying to tell your horror-obsessed bf or gf that Nosferatu ain't exactly your idea of holiday viewing pleasure? Well, this is your lucky day! Just print out this little form and check the right box so they finally take the hint already!
#Nosferatu #Nosferatu2024 #maybeferatu

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Dec 23

The 1979 version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe fascinated me as a child. The scene where the scampering hordes of witches and goblins shave Aslan and kill him was TERRIFYING to me as a 5 year old. C.S. Lewis created such a rich layering of classic & Christian mythology in his books.

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Dec 22

Let's talk about movies that SHOULD be Christmas classics, but aren't... First up is #youngsherlockholmes. Producer Steven Spielberg and director Chris Columbus weaved a delightful take on the Holmes lore & arguably the visual archetypes for A LOT of the cinematic Harry Potter. What are yours?

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Dec 10

However, I probably lost any earned street credit when I wrote "I'll have you know".

Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Dec 10

I'll have you know that an auditorium full of 4th and 5th graders today said I'm cooler than Taylor Swift. Not that it's a competition or anything.

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Jay Cooper Books @jaycooper.bsky.social · Dec 6

Tomorrow I've been invited back to my home state of DE to speak at two libraries: the New Castle library on Rt 9 at 11, and then the Harrington library at 1:30. I'll talk about how I do what I do, share some stories, and WE WILL DRAW. Drop by! #delaware #delawarelibraries