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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Image: lots of scientists milling round a very cold air conditioned room that also contains moss, stones and snow. One scientist makes notes on a clipboard.

Caption:
Every summer, professor Singh noted the correlation between rising temperatures in the rest of the institute and the increased number of colleagues visiting his "Moss growth in Arctic conditions" experiment.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

1. The entomology department notice board a sign reads “Employee of the moth: Claire”
(Claire is spelled with an i)

2. Clare and a colleague are scientists wearing lab coats, they look at the board. He says “Congrats, But I think they made a typo.”

“Damn, do they did.” Says Clare

3. Clare in the office, seen from outside “Sorry to bother you boss, but my name is spelled wrong on the poster”

4. Her boss is a human-sized moth in a lab coat sitting behind a desk “Apologies Clare, I’ll get that fixed.”
(Clare is spelled either no i)

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Coré-Perséphone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @petitecore.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Une enquête sur le groupe anti-trans pseudo-scientifiques l'observatoire de la petite sirène à partager massivement. Ils sont à l'origine d'un projet de loi voté au sénat visant à réintroduire sans le dire les thérapies de conversion pour les mineurs trans. ⤵️

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com. Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

Panel 1
A small girl and boy are reading on the floor. A father appears at the door and says:
"This is so nice to see! I heard that kids these days weren't reading."
One of the children says "Ugh, reading? So lame!"

Panel 2
She continues "It's called Booksmaxxing now, Dad!"
He replies as he is leaving "'m just happy you're enjoying it."

Panel 3
The boy says "Booksmaxxing?"
The girl says "I like to mess with him."

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This year the Gala is heavy criticized by the presence of Cobra Commander

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A recent books cartoon for @theguardian.com

A publisher's office. A writer and editor meet.

"I wasn't entirely convinced by the portrayal of thugs, hoodlums and henchmen in your novel, Quentin." Says the editor holding the manuscript, "So I've brought in an insensitivity reader."

The writer looks nervously at an enormous, muscular, tattoed, stubbly, shaven-headed, man who holds the manuscript, a tiny pen, and grins with (perhaps unintentional) menace.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy Mothering Sunday!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

Title: "The Haters"

panel 1.
Two round characters sit in a cinema.
Yellow blob "I hate this!"
Red Blob "Me too!"

Panel 2.
They have left the cinema
Red blob "I hated every minute of that film! It was nothing like the book!"

Panel 3.
"Did you like the book?" asks Yellow.
Red replies "I hated it!" then asks "You?"

Panel 4.
Yellow blob "I've not read it. I hated the film purely on its own merits."

Panel 5.
Red blob "I'll lend you my copy."
Yello blob"That's very kind."

Panel 6.
Caption: "Later"
Yellow, reading the book "I hate this!"
Red (happily) "I knew you would!!"

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

De la paréidolie numérique. Ils ne reproduisent pas des comportement humains (ce sont d'énormes graphes). Les hallucinations sont un termes des startups. J'imagine que la communication de ces startup sur l'humanisation des llms a fini par gagner de tous bords. Même chez les plus critiques :)

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Representation on movies and tv are not reliable but this article of 2019 have a interesting point on the choice of the Terminator.

Article from Slate, titled "In the 1990s, Terminator’s Ultimate Evil Took the Form of a Cop. In 2019, It’s the U.S. Border Patrol."

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Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

If your Sunday Scaries feel just a little stronger than usual, fear not. Scientists have proven there's no way around it... from PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A Kansas journalist posted online an exclusive photo of President Luthor making deal with some shady people

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The cultural manifestations of this period of the year is fascinating.

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Fissupix @fissupix.com · 31/12/2025

Bonne année 2026 ... enfin ... surtout la santé !

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Neverending Story : AI Slop invaded Fantasia, empty content...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A small child approaches his scientist father who is working at a large, strange, contraption. His face pressed to a viewing tube.

“Are you looking forward to Christmas, papa?” Asks the child.

“Yes,” replies the scientist“ turning round, “that is exactly what I am doing” then he adds “Thank you for the socks.”

We can now see that the viewing tube breaks the border of the comics panel, passes through complicated machinery and allows the scientist to see into the next comic panel:

Caption: December 25th

A Christmas scene. The child and father-scientist open presents before a Christmas tree. The father has just unwrapped some socks.

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

An online comment about the pink sweatshirt: "True men wears camouflage pattern" Me: yeah lovely fluo colorful camouflage patterns are so lovely 😉

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The tv show "Pluribus" is a lot about parasocial, online shopping and Internet. Internet because the few not assimilated are some disenchanted of masses, gurus or hermit. Online shopping because groceries are in warehouses for "consolidating resources". Will they then turn (next) to anger ?

Pluribus "Happiness in contagious" - promo image

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Hate marketing became common, now. Nobody cares about app "2wai". So their team imagine a hate marketing campaign... A fiction with transparent phone and dead family members... to create a controversial response online. Honestly, i'm tired of this kind of $%#...

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Good morning

POV from inside a replicator as a Starbucks coffee materialises for Janeway. The name on the cup reads "Catelyn"

I forget the context for why I made this!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop:

Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop)
Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller)
Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made)
Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie)
Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape.

Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown" is a game inspired by the mechanic of "This War of Mine" The demo is not very good honestly. You are disconnected of the story and the characters. Something is missing for now. Frostpunk have moral directive. Star Trek have nothing. The demo = spreadsheet

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Trying to replicate the success of Hatsune Miku (2007), some company or country launch digital avatars. Same error repeatedly : a signer / creative team very far from ethnicity and/or culture of the digital avatar Several countries have now digital spokesperson but this raises several questions

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Internet: Peacemaker is a subtle reference to Watchmen (the comedian). Me: Subtle ?! What do you mean by "subtle"? 🧐

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

If you watched Dead End, you know the show is loveable story about [Barney, Norma, Badyah, ...] trying to cope with these own insecurities, trying to found his own place in the world (we've all been child) and trying to find own way to interact/understand each other. This is more than ok !

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books. p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at www.tomgauld.com

Macho editions: classics reworked for men!

War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
33% more war!

In search of Lost time by Marcel Proust
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
Less remembering, more action!

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
More information about the cars!

Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
Jack Reacher Cameo!

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Between the "Progenitors" on Discovery... and the weird speech about genetic memory, good & evil / gods on SNW... Does Star Trek have fallen into a christian tv show ? This is so weird for a non US-american...

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

2000's : US politicians loved the villains from the x-men movie.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

A character walks into a shop. The sign reads:
“Books”
Across the floor of the bookshop, past the bookshelves, is a stair down with a sign reading:
“Used Books”
Across the used books floor is a stair down marked:
“Antiquarian Books”
Across the antiquarian books floor is a stair down marked:
“Forbidden Books of the Elden Ones”
Stalactites hang. Strange tomes sit on plinths. Unearthly creatures scuttle in the gloom. A figure stands before a cash desk where a cyclopean, tentacled staff member says:
“Yes, we do have the new Stephen King but it's back up on the ground floor.”

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Fissupix @fissupix.com · 19/08/2025

We Will .. We Will ... (air connu) dédicace @domnukem.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Krypton probably had an active drag community !

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

J'ai vu passer sur les réseaux, quelqu'un disant (émission tv) : "soient ils me tuent, soit ils me mangent, ..." C'est honnêtement insupportable d'entendre (même avec humour) des propos teintés de colonialisme puant et à ce point...

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

How to illustrate "gender identity" vs "gender expression" :

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Le kilt que je portais hier 🏳️‍🌈 Je l'ai un peu customisé pour l'occasion ! Le patch "Queer liberation" était déjà présent 😁

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Since it's almost Midsummer...

A giant, red, goat-headed demon sits on a stone throne in a subterranean chamber.
"So, it is decided: on midsummer's eve, my words shall spew forth across the land like black fire!"

"We prefer to call it 'publication day'" says his publicist.

"..And we were hoping you might do some social media to to promote the book?"

Things turmn dark, the demon's goat eyes glow
"I cannot fathom the accursed opiate screens that so enthral your kind."

"Yeah, some of our other authors feel that way, but that's why we have Toby: he's an absolute whiz!" she replies, introducing a small man.

"I'll set you up on twitter and you'll be corrupting Souls in no time!" says Toby.

A caption reads: "An hour later"

The demon now has his head in his hands and moans:
"I can endure this Foul parade of doltish barbarity No longer! Please deactivate My account, wizard Toby"

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I love Poor things. A masterpiece need to have layers. This is not a masterpiece because the messages are too direct. But... the allegories very direct and childish... become a strength in this movie (with a parallel with the main character journey (starting as a "child like" figure)).

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ZacharyisWackary @zacharyiswackary.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🧜‍♂️🧜‍♂️

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🏳️‍🌈 DomNukem 🖖 @domnukem.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Vu la réaction sur le personnage voilé de l'affiche (enfin dessin) dans certains papiers, je vais rappeler ce qu'est la pride. La pride c'est festif mais c'est aussi le fait de rappeler que non, toi qui n'est pas lgbtqia+, tu n'as pas à mettre des "mais..." / des conditions...

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🍂 Jo (a swarm of) Bee(s) 🦇 @jobeeart.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

it is pride and i am once again thinking about Them

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

Panel One:
A scientist is giving a lecture. she stands at a lecturn. The current slide shows a list of the five kingdoms of living things: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera. She says "Most people assume that fungi are plants. Whereas in fact, they form a kingdom of their own."

Panbel Two:
Caption : After the lecture
The scientist now appears to be in a subterranean cave, before her stand two very large mushrooms guarding a larger, beardedmushroom who sits in athrone wearing a crown. One of the mushrooms says "His majesty is very pleased with the work you are doing."

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MORGUES @mxmorgan.com · 24/04/2025

heard it is lesbian visibility week. made this shield maiden bearing a rune of warding, inspired by a lovely friend of mine, in 2023. prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo... tees: mxmorgan.threadless.com/designs/sist...

illustration of a valkyrie shield maiden. her shield bears the lesbian pride flag with a rune of warding, and she bears a sash in trans flag colors. she is wielding a sword and a scowling face with purpose. text below reads "protect your sisters"

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

current news got me thinking about this story from last year

Article about a transphobe getting banned from the gym for taking a photo of a transgender woman in a locker room

Cartoon showing someone crawling under a locker room stall to take a picture of a person wrapped in a towel. The person on the floor is hissing “You Pervertttt”

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