Books, Design and Culture
Tom Gauld celebrates Independent Bookshop Week (which was last week, but isn’t every week independent bookshop week when you think about it?)
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This is a tragically accurate portrayal of how it has been going during the pandemic.
(Tom Gauld for The Guardian of course)
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Tom Gauld has drawn a new cartoon for the New York Times Books section.
This is probably my favourite panel…
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.
If you’re a fan of #bookfacefriday on Instagram, you will likely enjoy this short film made in collaboration with the public library in the German city of Erlangen…
