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Published April 15, 2020

Tom Gauld’s Department of Mind-Blowing Theories

The New York Times interviews cartoonist Tom Gauld:

An inspiration for my drawing is my dad, who was an architect. As a kid, there was always paper around. I’d go and visit him in his office and see him drawing on the drawing board with a ruler and a pen. I think my cartooning is kind of like, I saw him drawing all day and thought, “That looks lovely,” and then I saw him go into a building site and arguing with a builder, and I thought, “That looks awful.” I basically wanted to find a job where I could do the drawing without having to shout at anybody.

Tom’s new book Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, which collects his cartoons for New Scientist magazine is available now.

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Published April 1, 2020

Chris Ware’s “Bedtime”

“As a procrastination tactic, I sometimes ask my fifteen-year-old daughter what the comic strip or drawing I’m working on should be about—not only because it gets me away from my drawing table but because, like most kids of her generation, she pays attention to the world. So, while sketching the cover of this Health Issue, I asked her.

“ ‘Make sure it’s about how most doctors have children and families of their own,’ she said.

Chris Ware’s heartbreaking cover for the New Yorker‘s Health Issue arrives in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic.

I was reminded of his 2009(!) cover for the New Yorker‘s from Halloween edition in which parents all look at their phones while their kids trick-or-treat. It’s an interesting contrast…

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Published February 21, 2020

Department of Mind-Blowing Theories

The previous post about the latest cover of the NYT Magazine reminded me that Tom Gauld‘s cartoons for New Scientist magazine (like the one above, although maybe not actually the one above because it’s new!) are going to be available in book form. Department of Mind-Blowing Theories will be available in April!

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Published February 21, 2020

Tom Gauld The Future of Work

Tom Gauld has illustrated the cover of this week’s New York Times Magazine on the subject of “The Future of Work”.

Here’s a short video about the process behind the cover posted by the design director of NYT Magazine, Gail Bichler (it can also be found here):

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Published October 23, 2019

I Love Autumn

Tom Gauld for The Guardian. (I feel… attacked?)1

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Published October 19, 2019

Work in Progress

Lucy Knisley for the New York Times Book Review.

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Published October 1, 2019

Golden Section Roller Coaster

Tom Gauld for New Scientist.

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Published August 30, 2019

Reader’s Block

I’ve been in a bit of reading slump of late so I can relate to this recent cartoon by Grant Snider for the New York Times Books Review (although, thankfully, I’ve not been banned from the library!).

Grant has a couple of new books coming out that are available for pre-order. What Color is Night? will be published by Chronicle Kids in November, and I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf will be published by Abrams in April 2020.

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Published August 27, 2019

Theory of Everything

Tom Gauld for the New Scientist.

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Published June 4, 2019

Lost Protest Scenes in Literature

Tom Gauld for the Guardian Review.  

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Published May 16, 2019

Tom Gauld & John L. Walters St. Bride Library Poster

Tom Gauld has collaborated with John L Walters, editor of Eye magazine, to make this lovely poster celebrating the St. Bride Library in London — the largest print and publishing library in the world.

Produced in a limited edition of 80, you can get one from the library store for £15.

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Published May 14, 2019

Fiction / Nonfiction

Joe Dator for The New Yorker.

(I feel like this is a variation on a gag that has been going around independent bookstores for a while now, but it gets more accurate by the day. I guess we have to laugh or we will cry, right?) 

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