Revenge of the Librarians

Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator with weekly comic strips in the Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in the New York Times and on the cover of the New Yorker. He is the author of Goliath You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack Mooncop (a New York Times bestseller) Baking with Kafka (winner of an Eisner Award) and most recently Department of Mind-Blowing Theories. He lives and works in London.@tomgauld | tomgauld.com|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 wilful 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 hilarious new comics collection from the New York Times bestselling cartoonist and illustrator - the perfect gift for all book lovers|Praise for Tom Gauld: Tom Gauld is always funny but he's funny in a way that makes you feel smarter|Gauld is my favourite hyper-minimalist brainiac cartoonist|[Gauld's strips] have become known for their wry playful erudition|Gauld's deceptively simple panels and sparse understated dialogue speak poetically . . . Gauld finds humour and hope - as well as coffee and doughnuts - in his portrait of a fading utopia|Each single-page piece is a clever funny slightly bonkers riff on a literary theme . . . Sublime|Tom Gauld might just be the Edward Gorey of our time channelling his wry humour and macabre aesthetic through exquisite black-and-white illustrations|His work is solace comfort guilty pleasure joy thrill pleasure palace . . . Falls into the national treasure category|One of the best cartoonists around!|His economical art . . . is married to dry incisive humor making each strip a carefully composed marvel|Tom Gauld's deceptively simple comics hold a mirror to human hypocrisies