It’s Friday so I’m posting comics…
Tom Gauld for The Guardian.
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Published May 22, 2026
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Published May 8, 2026
New Books
Published October 8, 2025
Physics for Cats: Science Cartoons by Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld has a new collection of his science-based cartoons for the New Scientist, Physics for Cats, out this week.
Tom talked to the New York Times about the previous collection, Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, in 2020.
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Published February 21, 2025
Friday Cartoons
Here are a couple of cartoons I saw this week that feel pretty representative of how things are going…
And this, by the late, great Sam Gross, is from the September 1, 1980 edition of The New Yorker.
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Published January 31, 2025
Recent Book Cartoons
As it is Friday afternoon here are a few recent book-related cartoons that I enjoyed…
Asher Perlman‘s collection of cartoons Well, This Is Me was published last year.
Grickle‘s kids graphic novel Eerie Tales from the School of Screams is weird and fun.
Tom Gauld‘s new collection of cartoons Physics for Cats will be out in the fall.
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Published July 16, 2024
Write What You Know
This is pretty much why I don’t write anything I don’t have to.
Asher Perlman’s book of cartoons, Well, This is Me, is available now.
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Published June 18, 2024
Book Release
Published April 18, 2024
Time Left Before the Heat Death of the Universe
I feel like I’ve posting a lot about to-read piles recently. It’s mostly because I feel guilty for not reading more.
Comic by Errant Science.
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Published March 20, 2024
Klaas Verplancke’s “On the Grid”
I love this illustration by Klaas Verplancke for the recent ‘Style Issue’ of the New Yorker (which has a fun animated version of the cover on its website).
It works on lots of levels, but it also feels like a bit of nostalgic throwback. People look at their phones these days (although I did see someone with a word search book on the Toronto subway this morning, so some people are keeping it old school at least).
Grid patterns suit the cover of the New Yorker so well though. They work as a representation of Manhattan’s city grid and its skyline, as well as magazine layouts and puzzles. I was reminded me of Sergio García Sánchez’s “Modern Life” cover from a couple of years ago (itself a riff on Piet Mondrian’s New York-inspired painting “Broadway Boogie Woogie“). Chris Ware divided the cover into a comic book (ish) grid during the pandemic too. I’m sure there are more examples. (Grids are good!)
Published March 14, 2024
Load-Bearing Books
Drew Dernavich for the New Yorker. My to-read pile probably isn’t structurally important, but I wouldn’t pull a book out of the bottom of the stack that’s for sure.
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Published February 7, 2024
Why Stop?
Published December 5, 2023
