Rob Cave

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More books, please.

Two comic books on a bus seat.
A bookshelf in the biography section of a book shop, giving special prominence to a Barbra Streisand book.
The Original HP Sauce.
The world’s greatest condiment: HP sauce.
Pia gurrera’s comics strip On the Day that it happens.
A subscription paywall on the BBC news website.
A Page from Shirley Jackson’s The Demon Lover. 1949 35c Avon paperback “complete and unabridged”
A panel from Iron Man #140 (1980) where Tony Stark’s luxury yacht is revealed to be named Throat-wobbler Mangrove.
A comically dressed British patriot proudly brandishing a bottle of HP Sauce.
Donald Cammell’s movie Performance starring mick jagger
A portrait in a naïve style.
A photo of a bookshelf slit into two genres: Proust and Business.
Screenshot of the $50 annual subscription fee ($9 per month) the BBC is now charging users in the US to access some of its stories.
A bookshelf split into two genres: Proust and business.
Kevin O’Neill’s Marshal Law.
A picture of a sign showing that dogs, smoking, drinking and skateboarding are all prohibited, which accidentally created the notion of the coolest, hard drinking, hard smoking, skateboarding dog ever.
Marie Kondo’s The Life-changing Manga of Tidying up, illustrated by Yuko Uramoto
A Sleazenation article on Martin Parr’s Tokyo Metro photos c. 2000
The cover of the Superman Family Omnibus collection
A sign outside a gallery space that has the word “ART” in large, not unfriendly block capitals over a thick black arrow pointing inward toward the gallery space.
Randall Monroe’s classic XKCD cartoon describing how fundamental infrastructure (in his case of the internet) is maintained by volunteers in America.
Ashes on the doorstep in the morning.
Ash accumulated on a car roof over the course of a few hours.
Poscard to a Mrs Collins that reads; “Weather very cold and damp up to now. Sun trying to break thru, but it is a struggle. Hope you are feeling better soon.”
The Sir Nigel Gresley at Peterborough station. An A4 locomotive from 1937.
Cover of the book “Mistakes were Made (but not by me)”
A page from a secondhand copy of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi with the inaccurate marginalia reading: “Marji dies at the end sorry for ruining the story”
The cover of the book Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)
Cover of the book Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)
Mistakes were Made (but not by me) By Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
A title card reading: “tonight’s episode: The Writer’s barely-disguised fetish” from Police Squad
Title card from the short-lived Leslie Nielsen series Police Squad! containing the text: “Tonight’s episode; The Writer’s Barely-Disguised Fetish”
The book Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)
Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Cover of Carol Tavris and Eliot Aronson’s book Mistakes were Made (but not by me)
X-men 1 issue one from 1991.