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Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons

Illustrator Tom Gauld takes a sideways look at cultural life
  • Kafka

    Tom Gauld on Kafka’s book for toddlers – cartoon

    On thin ice …
  • Squirrel

    Tom Gauld on preparing for winter – cartoon

    The root and branch approach …
  • two characters next to a machine

    Tom Gauld on the ultimate writing machine – cartoon

    No humans required …
  • picture of man with books

    Tom Gauld on distraction – cartoon

    Booking up for the autumn …
  • A police officer taking down a statement from a man carrying a big pile of books

    Tom Gauld on the masked librarian – cartoon

    A novel way to drum up new membership …
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    Tom Gauld on the optimistic and pessimistic novelists – cartoon

    What a difference a day makes …
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    Tom Gauld on holiday home books – cartoon

    On the shelf …
  • A woman looking at a book with others on a shelf behind

    Tom Gauld on how to manage your unread books pile – cartoon

    Checks and balances …
  • TG books 141 bears

    Tom Gauld watches the nature writer at work – cartoon

    He’s in for a big surprise …
  • TG books 137 choices
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    Tom Gauld on the writer’s new gamebook idea – cartoon

    Answer a) if you want to try it; b) if you’re not sure; c) if you hate it
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    Tom Gauld on holiday reading – cartoon

    One suitcase is never enough …
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    Tom Gauld on the novelist’s exoskeleton suit – cartoon

    Powerful writing …
  • self-righteous book

    Tom Gauld on the best books for the summer – cartoon

    Life’s a beach …
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    Tom Gauld on when book festivals go rogue – cartoon

    Looks like a job for Mad Max …
  • A character reads a book, falls off a cliff into the sea and washes up on a beach all the while still reading

    Tom Gauld on a gripping read – cartoon

    Hard not to get carried away …
  • And old lady, an young crime fighter and a young officer

    Tom Gauld on blatant vote chasing of the crime fiction community by politicians – cartoon

    It’s an open and shut case …
  • Shoppers looking at bookshelves with the genres TikTok, Hiphop and Flipflop

    Tom Gauld on the bookshop rebrand – cartoon

    For Zoomers, not Boomers …
  • illustration of two characters walking along the top of a machine

    Tom Gauld on censorship – cartoon

    The rest is silence …
  • A menacing looking robot

    Tom Gauld on the human-AI collaborative novel Robot Apocalypse 2030 – cartoon

    History in the making …
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    Tom Gauld on the ghost who refuses to leave the earthly realm – cartoon

    What, and leave all those books unread?
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