Tom Gauld
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a "book-lover's cartoonist," Gauld's weekly strips in the Guardian, Britain's most well-regarded newspaper, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed, concise comics. Simultaneously silly and serious, Gauld adds an undeniable lightness to...
4) Mooncop
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, an old lady loses her dog, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. capturing essential truths about humanity and making this a story of the past, present, and future,...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A collection of one hundred and fifty comic strips topical and funny enough to engage any layperson with a rudimentary recall of their old science classes as well as those who consider themselves boffins of the contemporary physical and natural world.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Dryly hilarious, the comics in You're all just jealous of my jetpack perfectly distill cartoonist Tom Gauld's dark humour, impeccable timing, and distinctinve style, all of which have made his work a popular weekly feature in The Guardian. Unexpected pairings such as the Brontë sisters and video games cross the classic with the contemporary. Gauld gleefully pokes fun at the canon of great authors--Shakespeare, Thoreau, Dickens, and Martin Amis...
7) Goliath
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This story reworks the David-and-Goliath myth. Goliath of Gath isn't much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he would pick administrative work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king, he finds himself issuing a twice daily challenge to the Israelites: "Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight. If he be able to kill me then we shall be your servants. But...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Graphic Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
When a wooden robot prince forgets to say the magic words that turn his sister from a log into a princess she is thrown away, so he goes on an epic journey to find her and bring her back.
"Desde hace años, el rey y la reina sueñan con tener un hijo y, por fin, un día su deseo se hace realidad. Casi por arte de magia ¡y por partida doble! Los reyes reciben a dos hermanos, un pequeño robot de madera y una princesa encantada, y los crían con mucho...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Graphic
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new highway. Our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds. His beat grows ever smaller. The population dwindles. A young girl runs away, an old lady loses her dog, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy, capturing the essential truths about humanity."--Cover