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Tom Gauld
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Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now!
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    Tom Gauld
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    Sep 11, 2017
    ‘Useful abbreviations for the time-pressed online reader’ (for @guardianreview)
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    Tom Gauld
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    Feb 28, 2021
    My cartoon for yesterday’s @guardianreview #kafka #lockdown
    Image: A human-sized insect sits alone in a room working at a desk with a laptop and an iphone. Caption: Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect, but because of the lockdown, his life carried on pretty much unchanged.
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    Tom Gauld
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    Apr 11, 2021
    ‘The bookshop cat and the pandemic’. My cartoon for yesterday’s @guardianreview.
    Title: The bookshop cat and the pandemic. First panel. Caption “the carefree days before” Image: the cat is asleep on a bookshelf. Second panel. Caption “the terrifying early weeks” Image: the cat is asleep on a bookshelf. Third panel. Caption “the long months of lockdown” Image: the cat is asleep on a bookshelf. Fourth panel. Caption “the triumphant reopening” Image: the cat is asleep on a bookshelf.
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    Tom Gauld
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    Dec 11, 2017
    Four stages of my New Yorker cover from last week: Scribble > Rough > Finished Drawing > Coloured Artwork.
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    Tom Gauld
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    Feb 24, 2019
    ‘The novel-writing algorithm’ (for yesterday’s @guardianreview)
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    Tom Gauld
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    Apr 2, 2017
    A cartoon for yesterday's @guardianreview -
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    Tom Gauld
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    May 17, 2024
    My latest cartoon for @newscientist
    First panel: a line of modern electric cars. Second panel: A woman and a man are talking. She is holding a book. She says "It's hard to get excited about these new electric cars when I've seen much ambitious possibilities in fiction" "Sci-fi fan,huh?" he asks Third panel. "Uhh... yeah. Sci-fi." she says unsurely, looking at her book. Fourth panel: We can see a page of the book. It shows animals happily driving food-shaped cars in the style of Richard Scarry. The cars are labelled: Pickle car, Apple car and Hotdog car.
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    Tom Gauld
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    Mar 1, 2015
    'Our Blessed Homeland' (my cartoon for yesterday's @guardianreview) -
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    Tom Gauld
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    Jan 17, 2021
    ‘Coronavirus advice from a regency novel’ (my cartoon for yesterday’s @guardianreview)
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    Tom Gauld
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    Apr 3, 2021
    “Hunting for Easter eggs with Werner Herzog” (for the @guardianreview a while ago).
    Title: Hunting for Easter eggs with Werner Herzog Panel one: Werner goes out looking for eggs saying “I despise this idiotic sanitized ritual, and yet I am unwilling to return home eggless” Panel two: Werner stands before an egg on the ground “The joy of discovery rings hollow against the monumental indifference of the universe” Panel three: Werner carries an egg “what, other than regret, can hatch from this empty chocolate vessel”
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    Tom Gauld
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    Oct 27, 2024
    An early Halloween cartoon for New Scientist 🧪🦇
    Image: A cavernous laboratory filled with sinister outdated equipment, pickled organs, a pentagram and a corpse on a slab. Outside the window, bats fly past the moon while at a desk an angry-looking woman with crazed hair and a lab coat writes in a ledger. Caption: Janet had not imagined that being an evil scientist would involve so much evil paperwork.
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    Tom Gauld
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    May 19, 2024
    My latest cartoon for @GuardianBooks. #books #ghost
    Panel 1: A man finds a ghost reading a book and says "I thought you’d died?". The ghost replies "My Life has ended but I cannot pass over to the spirit realm when so much remains undone." Panel 2: The man says "You mean all those books you bought and never got around to reading?". The ghost turns to look at bookshelves piled high with books and says "It won’t take long. There are fewer distractions when you’re dead." Panel 3: A few months later... The man says "Is it me, or are the piles getting bigger?" (there are indeed more books than previously) "My Library card still works!" says the Ghost happily "But once I’ve read these I’ll start on the ones in the attic."
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    Tom Gauld
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    Sep 14, 2024
    My cartoon for the @GuardianBooks autumn reading special.
    A beautiful, smiling pile of new books labelled "New Books for Autumn" innocently attracts the attentions of a young man. Beside him, his pile of books (labelled "Unfinished Summer Reading") notices this and scowls at him. The image is a cartoon pastiche of the ‘distracted boyfriend’ meme.
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    Tom Gauld
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    Oct 26, 2024
    An early Halloween cartoon for @GuardianBooks
    Two figures sit on benches beside a lake. They are both reading books. One figure is labeled “Reading a vampire novel”, the other is labeled “Vampire reading a novel”. In the lake, the human reader, book and bench are perfectly reflected, but the vampire’s book appears to be floating above an empty bench.
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