Tom Gauld Knihy

Král a královna touží dlouhé roky po dítěti. Jejich přání se zázrakem splní hned dvakrát v podobě malého dřevěného robota a kouzelné princezny, které oba láskyplně vychovávají. Má to však jeden háček: pokaždé, když princezna večer usne, změní se v obyčejné polínko. Zpátky k životu ji přivedou jen kouzelná slova „Vzbuď se, polínko, vzbuď.“ Nerozlučné sourozence od sebe jednoho dne oddělí nehoda: princezna je nedopatřením zaměněna za obyčejný kus dřeva a odvezena na mrazivý Sever. Je na jejím věrném bráškovi, aby ji zachránil a přivedl zpátky do království. Následuje napínavé dobrodružství, ve kterém nechybí noční les, ochotná zvířátka, zlomyslné víly, dračí vejce, stařenka v lahvi ani ohromující závěr, který zaručeně uspokojí čtenáře všech věkových kategorií. V Malém dřevěném robotovi a polínkové princezně se Tomu Gauldovi, uznávanému kreslíři, oceňovanému autorovi grafických novel a spolupracovníkovi The New Yorker, povedla vytvořit zbrusu nová pohádka, která vyniká kouzlem okamžiku a nadčasovostí zároveň.

Britský humor, ostré pero a nezaměnitelný vizuální styl jednoho z nejtalentovanějších kreslířů současnosti. Týden co týden kreslí Tom Gauld stripy pro britský deník The Guardian. Vynalézavě v nich mísí literární kritiku s pop-kulturními odkazy a vtipnou zkratkou komentuje literární svět. Dozvíte se třeba, jak vypadá dron-kniha, že jedním z archetypů hrdinky je kyborgyně, že častý omyl nezkušených autorů detektivek je málo podezřelých nebo jaksi žádná vražda… Můžete si také udělat kvíz: ROMÁNY SE PŘEKLÁDAJÍ POMOCÍ… černé magie, minirobotů, tvrdé práce, osmózy? Tyto komiksové stripy pro vás ovšem přeložila Michala Marková! Ilustrátor a komiksový kreslíř Tom Gauld se narodil v roce 1976 a vyrostl ve skotském hrabství Aberdeen. Pravidelně přispívá svými komiksovými stripy do periodik The Guardian, The New York Times a The New Scientist. Žije s rodinou v Londýně.

'Tom Gauld is always funny, but he's funny in a way that makes you feel smarter. Which is especially useful when he's being funny about science' Neil GaimanA dog philosopher questions what it really means to be a 'good boy'. A virtual assistant and a robot-cleaner elope. The undiscovered species and the theoretical particle face existential despair.Just as he did with writers, poets and literary classics in Baking with Kafka, Gauld now does with hapless scientists, nanobots, and puzzling theorems - with comic strips funny enough to engage science boffins and novices alike.

A hilarious new comics collection from the New York Times bestselling cartoonist and illustrator - the perfect gift for all book lovers

"Living on the moon... Whatever were we thinking...? It seems so silly now."The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon.

Tom Gauld’s debut graphic novel retelling of a classic myth, now in paperback Since the 2011 release of Goliath, Tom Gauld has solidified himself as one of the world’s most revered and critically-acclaimed cartoonists working today. From his weekly strips in The Guardian and New Scientist, to his lauded graphic novels You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack and Mooncop, Gauld’s fascination with the intersection between history, literary criticism, and pop culture has become the crux of his work. Now in paperback, with a new cover and smaller size, Goliath is a retelling of the classic myth, this time from Goliath’s side of the Valley of Elah. Goliath of Gath isn’t much of a fighter. He would pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king, he finds himself issuing a twice-daily challenge to the Israelites: “Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight.” Quiet moments in Goliath’s life as an isolated soldier are accentuated by Gauld’s trademark drawing style: minimalist scenery, geometric humans, and densely crosshatched detail. Simultaneously tragic and bleakly funny, Goliath displays a sensitive wit and a bold line—a traditional narrative reworked, remade, and revolutionized into a classic tale of Gauld’s very own.

"Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, and Kate Beaton."—NPR, Best Books of 2013 A new collection from the Guardian and New York Times Magazine cartoonist The New York Times Magazine cartoonist Tom Gauld follows up his widely praised graphic novel Goliath with You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, a collection of cartoons made for The Guardian. Over the past eight years, Gauld has produced a weekly cartoon for the Saturday Review section of Britain's best-regarded newspaper. Only a handful of comics from this huge and hilarious body of work have ever been printed in North America—and these have been available exclusively within the pages of the prestigious Believer magazine. You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack distills perfectly Gauld's dark humor, impeccable timing, and distinctive style. Arrests by the fiction police and imaginary towns designed by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human behavior and whimsical imaginings of the future. Again and again, Gauld reaffirms his position as a first-rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

"Tom Gauld (Mooncop, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Goliath) has created countless iconic strips for the Guardian over the course of his illustrious career. A master of condensing grand, highbrow themes into one-to-eight panel comics, Gauld's weekly Guardian strips embody his trademark British humor, while simultaneously opening comics to an audience unfamiliar with the artistry that cartooning has to offer. Funny but serious, these postcards allow Gauld to put his impressive knowledge of history, literature, and pop culture on full display--his impeccable timing, and distinctive visual style setting him apart from the rest. This postcard set celebrates over a decade of Gauld's contributions to the Guardian, with fifty of his most beloved strips on everything from Samuel Beckett's sitcom pitches (such as Waiting for Kramer: a show where two men await the arrival of a man named Kramer who never comes), 'Procrastination for Creative Writers, a 10-week Course, ' and 'Poetry Anthologies for People Who Don't Like Poems.'"-- Publisher's website