DB Dowd
@dbdowd.bsky.social
dbdowd.com | Professor of design at Sam Fox School, WashU StL. Faculty director of DIRA (Dowd Illustration Research Archive) WashU Libraries. New book Reading Pictures: A Cultural History of Illustration coming from Princeton U Press March 2026
Coming in from the cold in 2026, people
January 1, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Coming in from the cold in 2026, people
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It’s a star! @dbdowd.bsky.social's “impressive” and “lively” Reading Pictures gets a starred review in Kirkus (out March 17, 2026)!
READING PICTURES | Kirkus Reviews
Revealing the impact of images.
www.kirkusreviews.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It’s a star! @dbdowd.bsky.social's “impressive” and “lively” Reading Pictures gets a starred review in Kirkus (out March 17, 2026)!
Native Ohioan living in a different Red State (STL MO) says Go Buckeyes! on abortion rights. Finally some good news out of the onetime “Bellwether State.” May it be so again…
November 8, 2023 at 2:11 AM
Native Ohioan living in a different Red State (STL MO) says Go Buckeyes! on abortion rights. Finally some good news out of the onetime “Bellwether State.” May it be so again…
Representative post from that other place, to give a sense of what I do: commonreader.wustl.edu/the-century-...
The Century of Norman Rockwell - Common Reader
On the anniversary of his departure, a tip of the hat to Uncle Norman, whose latter-day appeal to the contemporary MAGA crowd ought not be held against him.
commonreader.wustl.edu
October 5, 2023 at 3:28 AM
Representative post from that other place, to give a sense of what I do: commonreader.wustl.edu/the-century-...