New Releases by Tom Gauld

Física cuántica, gatos y humor: los tres misterios del universo reunidos en las mejores viñetas de Tom Gauld. Tom Gauld, el dibujante que ama los libros, expande en cada viñeta su estilo ingenioso, memorable, imaginativo y muy divertido. Extrapolando datos, podemos predecir con una certeza del 99,99 % que, seas o no del mundo de la ciencia, al leer esta recopilación de viñetas publicadas para New Scientist a) te reirás, b) te mondarás, c) te troncharás o d) te descoyuntarás (no disponemos de una muestra lo bastante amplia como para poder afirmar qué tipo concreto de alegría experimentarás con esta magnífica obra). La critica ha dicho: "Gauld ha sido probablemente la primera persona en imaginarse que se podían hacer tiras cómicas de ciencia. Y algunos de sus títulos dejan entrever la mina de oro que ha encontrado en un terreno en apariencia sombrío" The New York Times "Es un maestro en realzar el humor mediante la sutileza" The Washington Post

What happens to a cat who goes through a wormhole? Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to their electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and oversize rubber gloves. Find out what the hadron’s news alert about CERN says! Everyone asks, “What is dark matter?” and “Where is dark matter?” but do they ever take the time to ask, “How is dark matter?” Based all on previous data, we can predict with a 99.99% certainty that you will either laugh, guffaw, chortle or snort (we don’t have a large enough sample set to be able to say which particular type of mirth you will experience.)

Quando se propôs a fazer humor sobre o mundo da literatura, Tom Gauld descobriu que podia apontar sua mira para diversos alvos. Autores que deixam leitores esperando anos por suas novas obras. Bibliotecas e seus ritos secretos de organização em meio ao rigoroso silêncio. Editores de olho no próximo best-seller. Críticos com suas manias e frases cheias de acidez. Festivais literários e as competições de ego inevitáveis entre os tipos que circulam por ali. E, é claro, os leitores — com suas pilhas de não lidos, suas promessas de que este ano vão ler livros sérios e profundos (que terminam sob o primeiro guarda-sol), suas mil maneiras de organizar a estante e as tentativas inglórias de autocontrole para não colocar mais livros para dentro de casa. Leitores como você e, sem dúvida, como o próprio Gauld, que sabe enxergar na literatura o que há de paixão e tragédia, de mágico e ridículo, de clichê e novidade — de uma maneira que celebra a inteligência de quem tem esse amor por virar páginas.

Dopo In cucina con Kafka Tom Gauld torna a farci sorridere con le sue spiazzanti vignette a tema letterario che spaziano da Jane Eyre al Trono di Spade. Ecco dunque aspiranti scrittori alle prese con la Pagina Bianca, la ferocia dei social e altri nemici soprannaturali, complottisti disposti a dare nuove interpretazioni ai classici e soprattutto bibliotecari pronti a ricatalogare l''universo... secondo la Classificazione Decimale Dewey. *********************** Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

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 The Guardian och 2023 tilldelades boken Eisner-priset för Årets bästa humorpublikation i USA.[Bokinfo].

Korean edition of [The Little Wooden Robot and The Log Princess] by Tom Gauld. A New York Times Book of the Year. In this fresh new fairy tale, a wooden robot embarks on a quest to find his missing sister-- making for a memorable contemporary bedtime story in acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld''s first picture book for children. Korean edition translated by Kim Yi Seul.

Nuevas tiras cómicas del dibujante que ama los libros, que regresa con su punzante humor con La venganza de los bibliotecarios. Con su estilo más que reconocible, a Tom Gauld no hay objetivo que se le resista: es capaz de abordar cualquier temática con su mirada irónica y certera. En esta ocasión, regresa al mundo literario para poner el foco en el templo de los libros y sus guardianes: bibliotecas y bibliotecarios. Con la inteligencia sin pretensiones a la que nos tiene acostumbrados, dando rienda suelta a su amplio conocimiento acerca de las triquiñuelas del sector y sirviéndose de su habilidad para las analogías científicas y su reconocido gusto por la ciencia ficción, Gauld regresa con una colección de viñetas imperdible, que reúne lo mejor de sus publicaciones semanales de The Guardian. La venganza de los bibliotecarios viene a confirmar que su ingenio es inagotable. La crítica ha dicho: «Tom Gauld es siempre divertido, pero lo es de una forma que te hace sentir inteligente.» Neil Gaiman «Las caricaturas esquemáticas [de Tom Gauld] añaden capas de significado incluso a las historietas de una sola viñeta e inyectan a lo ordinario un poco de lo fantástico. Encantador y sin pretensiones, todo lector puede admirar algo en la obra de Gauld.» The Comics Journal «El trabajo de Gauld me atrae más como amante de los libros: de cada una de las piezas surgen bromas que conectan con las comunidades de la ciencia ficción o la literatura, y denuncian por igual el esnobismo literario y a los fanáticos pedantes.» The Verge «Un libro imprescindible para todo bibliófilo por poco sentido del humor que tenga. [...] Muy recomendable.» The Austin Chronicle

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 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.

A signed limited edition of Tom Gauld''s hilarious REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS, which includes a custom library card pocket designed and individually signed by the author.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 humor, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones.Some particularly favored 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 important, 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 with Kafka, or any other collections of mordant scribblings by the inimitably excellent Gauld.A signed limited edition of Tom Gauld?s hilarious REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS, which includes a custom library card pocket designed and individually signed by the author.

Una aventura memorable destinada a convertirse en un clásico contemporáneo del género de «cuentos de buenas noches». Por Tom Gauld. El rey y la reina llevaban largos años intentando desesperadamente tener un hijo, hasta que finalmente su deseo se ve cumplido... por partida doble. Los reyes reciben el regalo de un robotito de madera y una princesa tronco, pero hay un problema: por las noches, la pequeña se transforma de nuevo en un trozo de madera común y corriente, y solo se revive al canto de «Despierta, tronquito, despierta». El robot y la princesa son inseparables, hasta que un buen día alguien se lleva por error a la princesa dormida a quién sabe dónde. Ahora, su leal hermano deberá encontrarla y devolverla sana y salva al reino. En el camino, el robot conocerá a personajes tan estrafalarios como la Reina de las Setas, un pudin mágico, un bebé en un rosal y una anciana en una botella. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the Year In this fresh new fairy tale, a wooden robot embarks on a quest to find his missing sister —making for a memorable contemporary bedtime story in acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld’s first picture book for children. For years, the king and queen have tried desperately to have a baby. Their wish was granted twice, when an engineer and a witch gave them a little wooden robot and an enchanted log princess. But there’s just one catch: every night when the log princess sleeps, she transforms back into an ordinary log, and can only be woken up with magic words. The princess and her robot brother are inseparable, until the sleeping princess, mistaken for lumber, is accidentally carted off to parts unknown. Now it’s up to her devoted brother to find her and get them safely back home. They need to take turns to get each other home, and on the way, they face a host of adventures involving the Queen of Mushrooms, a magic pudding, a baby in a rosebush, and an old lady in a bottle. This is acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld’s first picture book for children, inspired by a bedtime story he made up for his daughters. In his words, “I was trying to make a book inspired by three different sets of books: The books that I remember enjoying as a child, the books that I watched my daughters enjoying, and the books I enjoy now as an adult. I wanted the book to have its own quirky feeling but also to function like a classic bedtime story.” An ALSC Notable Children’s Book A Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Title A People Magazine Best Kids Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Children''s Book of the Year

Del ilustrador Tom Gauld, llega una aventura memorable que será el cuento para dormir favorito de los más pequeños. La historia entre las páginas de El pequeño robot de madera y de la princesa tronco es un cuento de hadas destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la literatura infantil. El rey y la reina llevaban largos años intentando desesperadamente tener un hijo, hasta que finalmente su deseo se ve cumplido... por partida doble. Los reyes reciben el regalo de un robotito de madera y una princesa tronco, pero hay un problema: por las noches, la pequeña se transforma de nuevo en un trozo de madera común y corriente, y solo se revive al canto de «Despierta, tronquito, despierta». El robot y la princesa son inseparables, hasta que un buen día alguien se lleva por error a la princesa dormida a quién sabe dónde. Ahora, su leal hermano deberá encontrarla y devolverla sana y salva al reino. En el camino, el robot conocerá a personajes tan estrafalarios como la Reina de las Setas, un pudin mágico, un bebé en un rosal y una anciana en una botella. La crítica ha dicho: «Qué libro tan sorprendente y delicioso. Lo he pasado mal por la princesa tronco, me han maravillado todas las historias que no llegamos a ver y he jaleado a la familia de escarabajos». Neil Gaiman «Una obra maestra de cajón». Lemony Snicket «Tom Gauld ha creado un magistral cuento de hadas clásico en la forma de un libro ilustrado que está repleto de aciertos. Con su estilo inimitable, le ha dado la vuelta a la realeza, los robots, las brujas, los inventores, los trols, los capitanes de barco, los bosques, los fantasmas y... los escarabajos (!) para dar lugar a una historia hermosa, extraña, gratificante y repleta de aventuras. Todo ello envuelto para regalo, por supuesto, con el lacito del amor fraternal». Oliver Jeffers «Entre las páginas de este libro hay todo un universo. Una lectura divertida, inteligente y entrañable». Jillian Tamaki «Tom Gauld es uno de los mejores narradores en activo, y por ello es capaz de crear un relato hermoso, cautivador, contado con destreza y poseedor de un aliento propio. Estoy celoso». Jon Klassen «No sabía que el mundo necesitaba otro cuento de hadas hasta que leí este libro divertidísimo, precioso y perfecto». Carson Ellis

Un conte de fades atemporal de Tom Gauld, dibuixant de còmics aclamat i guardonat, col·laborador de la revista New Yorker i autor de diverses novel·les gràfiques. Fa molts anys que el rei i la reina volen tenir un fill. El seu desig es veu doblement acomplert amb l''arribada d''un petit robot de fusta i una princesa encantada, que creixen envoltats d''amor. Només hi ha un petit obstacle: cada nit, quan la princesa s''adorm, es converteix en un tronc, i només se la pot despertar amb les paraules màgiques «Desperta''t, tronquet, desperta''t». Els germans són inseparables, però un dia la princesa adormida és víctima d''una confusió i va a parar al nord gèlid. La gesta de rescatar-la i tornar-la sana i estàlvia al regne recau en el seu fidel germà. Els esperen una sèrie d''aventures fascinants, amb boscos obscurs, animals servicials, fades empipadores, un púding màgic, una vella dins d''una ampolla i, finalment, un desenllaç impetuós que farà les delícies dels lectors de totes les edats. La crítica ha dit: «Un llibre d''una tendresa extraordinària. He patit per la princesa tronc, m''han encantat totes les aventures que no s''arriben a veure i he ovacionat la família d''escarabats.» Neil Gaiman «Tom Gauld ha convertit un meravellós conte de fades clàssic en un àlbum il·lustrat que encerta en tot.» Oliver Jeffers «Aquestes pàgines contenen tot un univers. És un llibre divertit, intel·ligent i tendre.» Jillian Tamaki «Tom Gauld és un dels millors narradors del moment i aquí hi trobem tot el que sempre fa tan bé. Aquest àlbum és bonic i captivador, està narrat amb gran destresa i té vida pròpia. Quina enveja.» Jon Klassen «No sabia que el món necessitava un altre conte de fades fins que he llegit aquest llibre tan divertit, preciós i perfecte.» Carson Ellis

Chaque dimanche, Tom Gauld publie un strip dans le cahier littéraire du journal anglais The Guardian. Et il y parle livres et littérature.

A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the Year In this fresh new fairy tale, a wooden robot embarks on a quest to find his missing sister-- making for a memorable contemporary bedtime story in acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld''s first picture book for children. For years, the king and queen have tried desperately to have a baby. Their wish was granted twice, when an engineer and a witch gave them a little wooden robot and an enchanted log princess. But there''s just one catch: every night when the log princess sleeps, she transforms back into an ordinary log, and can only be woken up with magic words. The princess and her robot brother are are inseparable, until the sleeping princess, mistaken for lumber, is accidentally carted off to parts unknown. Now it''s up to her devoted brother to find her, and get them safely back home. They need to take turns to get each other home, and on the way, they face a host of adventures involving the Queen of Mushrooms, a magic pudding, a baby in a rosebush, and an old lady in a bottle. This is acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld''s first picture book for children, inspired by a bedtime story he made up for his daughters. In his words, "I was trying to make a book inspired by three different sets of books: The books that I remember enjoying as a child, the books that I watched my daughters enjoying, and the books I enjoy now as an adult. I wanted the book to have its own quirky feeling but also to function like a classic bedtime story." An ALSC Notable Children''s Book A Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Title A People Magazine Best Kids Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Children''s Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Children''s Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year An NPR ''Book We Love!'' A Booklist Editors'' Choice A Shelf Awareness Best Children''s Book of the Year A Bulletin of the Center for Children''s Books Blue Ribbon Book! A Publishers Lunch Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection An Evanston Public Library Great Books for Kids pick! A CCBC Choice A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year

Since the 2011 release of Goliath, Tom Gauld has solidified himself as one of the world’s most revered and critically-acclaimed cartoonists working today. From his weekly strips in the Guardian and New Scientist, to his lauded graphic novels You''re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack and Mooncop, Gauld’s fascination with the intersection between history, literary criticism, and pop culture has become the crux of his work. Now in paperback, with a new cover and smaller size, Goliath is a retelling of the classic myth, this time from Goliath''s side of the Valley of Elah. Goliath of Gath isn''t much of a fighter. He would pick admin 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." Quiet moments in Goliath''s life as an isolated soldier are accentuated by Gauld''s trademark drawing style: minimalist scenery, geometric humans, and densely crosshatched detail. Simultaneously tragic and bleakly funny, Goliath displays a sensitive wit and a bold line--a traditional narrative reworked, remade, and revolutionized into a classic tale of Gauld’s very own.

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 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.

New York Times Magazine cartoonist Tom Gauld follows up his widely praised graphic novel Goliath with You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, a collection of cartoons made for The Guardian. Over the past eight years, Gauld has produced a weekly cartoon for the Saturday Review section of Britain’s most well regarded newspaper. Only a handful of comics from this huge and hilarious body of work have ever been printed in North America – exclusively within the pages of the prestigious Believer magazine. You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack distils perfectly Gauld’s dark humor, impeccable timing, and distinctive style. Arrests by the fiction police and fictional towns designed by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human behavior and whimsical imaginings of the future. Again and again, Tom Gauld reaffirms his position as a first rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon "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. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld''s science fiction is personal—no big explosions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person’s slow awakening to his own uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.

Fãs de literatura conhecem bem o trabalho de Tom Gauld. Suas historinhas sobre escritores e leitores e suas tiradas sobre o universo do livro tornaram-se clássicas entre os apaixonados pela leitura. Uma de suas tiras mais conhecidas, em que um autor de ficção científica diz a seus colegas mais sisudos, enquanto decola, "Vocês estão apenas com inveja da minha mochila a jato", foi vista e compartilhada milhões de vezes. Em Guarda lunar, Gauld volta à forma longa, como no premiado Golias, e os admiradores logo reconhecerão os traços mais marcantes de seu trabalho: o humor seco, a economia na ação, o clima melancólico que revela a graça, a tristeza e o absurdo da vida cotidiana. Nas rondas do solitário policial da Lua, pouco acontece: um cachorro foge, um robô dá defeito, um morador volta para a Terra. Num futuro em que a colonização do espaço tornou-se aparentemente banal, o guarda circula pelo vasto cenário vazio numa sucessão de dias que se confundem. Ao mesmo tempo divertido e sorumbático, o livro captura verdades essenciais sobre quem somos. Ao combinar passado, presente e futuro, Gauld cria um mundo de ficção científica quase igual ao nosso — um ajuste nas lentes que revelarão ao leitor uma realidade tão próxima quanto surpreendente.

Puisqu''ils ne peuvent avoir d''enfant, un roi et une reine vont chacun de leur côté consulter les personnes qui, à leur avis, pourraient régler tous leurs problèmes. La savante royale construit ainsi un robot de bois pour le souverain, tandis que la sorcière de la forêt change une bûche en petite princesse pour son épouse. De retour au château, chacun d''eux révèle son secret: la fillette reprend sa forme originelle une fois assoupie et le garçonnet héberge une famille de scarabées dans ses rouages. Comme le second se charge chaque jour de réveiller la première avec une formule magique, une servante jette le rondin qu''elle découvre dans le lit royal le matin où il faille à sa tâche. Désespéré, le robot de bois tente de retrouver sa soeur, mais ce faisant, tous deux feront un si long périple que le prince cessera de fonctionner... et que la princesse se transformera de nouveau en bûche!