Tom Gauld – författare

Möt den pretentiösa romanförfattaren, den fåfänga poeten, den kallhamrade redaktören och många andra litterära typer i denna seriesamling av den brittiske humoristen Tom Gauld. Här skärskådas hela bokvärlden med unik humor och tecknarstil.

Tom Gaulds litterära skämtserier publiceras regelbundet i dagstidningen The Guardian. 2023 tilldelades originalutgåvan av Bibliotekariernas hämnd det prestigefyllda Eisner-priset för Årets bästa humorpublikation i USA.

I åratal hade kungen och drottningen längtat efter barn. Så äntligen gick deras önskan i uppfyllelse. De fick en dotter och en son. Men varje natt förvandlades prinsessan till ett vedträ och kunde bara väckas med en magisk ramsa. En morgon råkade hembiträdet vara först uppe. Hon förstod inte vad ett vedträ gjorde i prinsessans säng och kastade ut det genom fönstret. Jakten på prinsessan blir ett halsbrytande äventyr som tar syskonen världen runt innan de till sist får hjälp från ett mycket oväntat håll.

Den lilla träroboten och prinsessan vedträ är en klassisk saga som är helt nutida och samtidigt alldeles tidlös. Den har sålts till flera länder, fått strålande recensioner och utnämnts till Årets bok. 

Tom Gauld är en kultförklarad och prisbelönt serietecknare och illustratör. En gång i veckan gör han en serie om litteratur i The Guardian och en om vetenskap i The New Scientist. Han gör även omslag till The New Yorker. Den lilla träroboten och prinsessan vedträ är hans första bok för barn. Jag har försökt göra en bok som är inspirerad av böckerna jag gillade när jag var barn, böckerna mina döttrar gillar och böckerna jag gillar nu när jag är vuxen. Jag ville att boken skulle ha en helt egen känsla, men samtidigt fungera som en klassisk godnattsaga.

En av de bästa bilderböckerna jag läst i år. New York Times

Denna roliga och innerliga bok är en fantastisk introduktion till seriernas värld för barn som innan man vet ordet av kommer att sluka grafiska romaner som godis. Washington Post

"Det hela är mycket charmigt."Dagens Nyheter

A side-splitting skewering of the sober world of STEMNo one is safe when humorist and cartoonist Tom Gauld directs his hilarious gaze to your profession. Just as he did with writers, poets, and literary classics for the Guardian books page, Gauld now does with hapless scientists, nanobots, and puzzling theorems for his weekly New Scientist strip, the international magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.Gauld's Department of Mind-Blowing Theories presents 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. A dog philosopher questions what it means to be a ‘good boy’ while playing fetch! A virtual assistant and a robot-cleaner elope! The undiscovered species and the theoretical particle face existential despair! Facebook commenters debunk Darwin’s posting of On the Origin of Species! Why are there poodles pouring out of this wormhole?!One could hypothesize how Gauld is able to command such quick-witted knowledge of the scientific world however, as these strips prove, Gauld would retaliate with the sharpest of punchlines to that hastily cobbled postulate. Gauld won an Eisner for Best Humor for Baking With Kafka and Department of Mind-Blowing Theories is sure to cement his reputation as the foremost authority on joke generating technology.

"At once hilarious and achingly melancholy, [Mooncop] reads like a requiem for the future we were promised decades ago that never arrived. A quietly essential read for anyone who grew up reading sci-fi."—Wired"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."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, a dog breaks off his leash, 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, all in one. Like his Guardian and New Scientist strips, as well as his previous graphic novel, Goliath, Mooncop is told with Tom Gauld's distinctive, matter-of-fact storytelling and dry humor — an approach that has earned him fans around the world.

A best-of collection of literary humour cartoons from the critically-acclaimed Guardian cartoonistIn 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 traditionally highbrow themes. From sarcastic panels about the health hazards of being a best-selling writer to a list of magical items for fantasy writers (such as the Amulet of Attraction, which summons mainstream acceptance, Hollywood money, and fresh coffee), Gauld’s cartoons are timely and droll—his trademark British humour, impeccable timing, and distinctive visual style sets him apart from the rest.Lauded both for his frequent contributions to New Scientist, The Guardian and The New York Times, and his Eisner-nominated graphic novels, Tom Gauld is one of the most celebrated cartoonists working today. In Baking with Kafka, he proves this with one witty, sly, ridiculous comic after another.

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the authorTom 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 of the vainglorious poet. Quake in the presence of the stack of bedside books as it grows taller! Gnash your teeth at the ever-moving deadline that the writer never meets! Quail before the critic’s incisive dissection of the manuscript! And most importantly, seethe with envy at the paragon of creative productivity!Revenge of the Librarians contains even more murders, drubbings, and castigations than The Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Baking For Kafka, or any other collections of mordant scribblings by the inimitably excellent Gauld.

Fifty postcards from The Guardian, by Britain’s most well regarded cartoonistTom Gauld (Mooncop, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Goliath) has created countless iconic strips for The Guardian over the course of his illustrious career. A master of condensing grand, highbrow themes into one- to eight-panel comics, his weekly strips embody his trademark British humor while simultaneously opening comics to an audience unfamiliar with the artistry that cartooning has to offer. Funny but serious, these postcards allow Gauld to put his impressive knowledge of history, literature, and pop culture on full display—his impeccable timing and distinctive visual style setting him apart from the rest.This postcard set celebrates more than a decade of Gauld’s contributions to The Guardian, with fifty of his most beloved strips, on everything from Samuel Beckett’s sitcom pitches (such as Waiting for Kramer: a show where two men await the arrival of a man named Kramer who never comes), “Procrastination for Creative Writers, a 10-Week Course,” and “Poetry Anthologies for People Who Don’t Like Poems.” Witty and beautifully drawn, The Snooty Bookshop will make you chuckle at least fifty times, guaranteed.