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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Book 55 is "Dark Reading Matter" by Jasper Fforde, the eighth and final Thursday Next novel. #CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BookSky #JasperFforde #ThursdayNext #DarkReadingMatter

The cover of the book.

An open-topped yellow sports car driven by a woman in a red dress and with blonde hair is bursting out of the side of a concrete structure that looks like it's probably a multistorey carpark. A donkey with a black spoiler bat across his eyes is in the passenger seat, and there's a trail of books behind the car.

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@Artemis201 Well apparently I read all of it this evening, so presumably did enjoy it!

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Book 52 is"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a collection of 11 short stories. #CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BookSky #SirArthurConanDoyle #SherlockHolmes #MemoirsOfSherlockHolmes

The cover of the book.

A striped background of burgundy, red, and pink. A cream rectangle in the centre of the pages has the title, author, and a grey sailing ship.
There is a flower border above and below the rectangle, and decorative flowers in the corners of the rectangle.

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Book 49 is "The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, containing two Sherlock Holmes stories. #CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BookSky #SirArthurConanDoyle #SherlockHolmes #TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles #TheValleyOfFear

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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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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Book 43 is "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, containing 12 short stories. #CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BookSky #SirArthurConanDoyle #SherlockHomes #TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

@jrberkeley.bsky.social See, Mastodon lets you edit posts, which makes this kind of thing a lot easier. :⁠-⁠P Sadly, because Bluesky doesn't, any edits I make don't propagate across...

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Hey, folks! Do you know of any unisex/open toilets? Add them here! I just went on and added my work building, which is fully open to the public during business hours, and has single-sex toilets on the ground floor, but two single-occupancy unisex rooms on the upper floors. (There's a space to […]

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

In the middle of my game last week, while the players were deciding what they were doing, I was idly mussing on whether I'd need a name for a demon if they went with a summoning plan. Mind latched onto "Zergathrax" and, while I knew it was a reference to _something_, I couldn't work out where it […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Panel one: a climber reaches the top of a towering cliff. There, among the clouds, a serene figure with a long beard, wearing a robe, sits crosslegged on the bare rock. He is "The Great Wise One of the Mountain"

Panels two, three and four: sitting serenely crosslegged on successively lower clifftops we see the Assistant Wise One of the Mountain, The Post-Doc Research Fellow of the Mountain and a group of PhD Students of the Mountain

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Book 41 of 2026 is "Reaper's Gale", the 7th Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. #CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BookSky #StevenErikson #MalazanBookOfTheFallen #ReapersGale

The cover of the book.

A longhaired man with a second skin of gold coins, sits on a high backed throne, leaning forward and holding a sword in his right hand, the point down on the ground.
The scene is backlit with red clouds.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

A publisher's office.

The editor explains "Your draft has all the elements of a masterpiece, they're just not in the right order"
The writer looks at her draft on the table and asks "Elements?"
The editor clarifies, sadly "Letters".

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

Title (in a yellow star): "Offers at our Bookshop"

Panel 1: Buy two, get one free
A figure approaches the till with three books

Panel 2: Buy four, get a free tote bag
The cashier holds up a tote.

Panel 3: Buy one, get talking to staff, leave with five
Customer leaved happily, carrying a full tote and waving to tthe wo staff

Panel 4: Buy none, get a guilty feeling
Customer skulks out of the shop

Panel 5: Buy three as gifts, get the urge to keep them
Customer walking home already reading the books

Panel 6. Get overexcited, buy twelve...Get home, get eye-roll from partner
Customer arrives home reading a book and carrying two full totes.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

1. Title: The North Wind and the Sun quarrelled as to who was the stronger.

2. The Sun says: "I propose a wager: See yonder traveller, let us see who can make him remove his cloak."

3. The northwind blows on the traveller, the sun says: "You blow yet he only wraps it tighter!"

4. The sun shines on the traveller, saying: Observe! . The traveller mutters "nice and warm"

5. The Sun says "See, my kindness brought results!" The traveller has removed hos cloak and begins to sweat. "Fair enough, you win." concedes the North Wind.

6. "Tremble before my gracious heat!" says the sun, smiling bradly. His heat has started a fire. the traveller flees. The North Wind says "I think that’s enough."

7. "Let the world burn with my cleansing benevolence!!" blazes the sun madly, now grown huge in the sky. The land is a burning fireball. "Now you’re scaring me!" says the North Wind anxiously.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #heatwave

Panel 1
A cartoon book with a face, legs and arms shouts out "Beware! Heatwave reading dangers!"

Panel 2
Caption "Binding glue softened by the sun"
Image: The book stands helplessly as its glue drips and pages fall to the floor.

Panel 3
Caption "Dropped while reading in a cooling bath"
Image: The book splashes into the water

Panel 4
Caption "Mislaid by a heat-addled reader"
Image: The book gestures wildly as the reader stumbles away in a daze.

Panel 5
Caption "Spontaneous combustion"
Image: The book explodes in flame.

Panel 6
"Sweaty hands!" screams the book as it runs away from a large pink hand, dripping with perspiration.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Presenting My cover designs for a series of Highbrow Literary Novels

Panel one.
Designer shows a book cover to the publisher. It shows a woman and man looking at a burning house with an orange sky behind.
The publisher says
"Not classy enough!"

Panel Two.
Designer shows a book cover to the publisher. It is now the same image in back and white with a text box hiding the house.
The publisher says
"Better, but not right!"

Panel Three.
Designer shows a book cover to the publisher. It is now just white text on a plain navy blue background
The publisher says
"Yes! But take it further!"

Panel Four.
Designer shows a book cover to the publisher. The author name is now gone too, the title is tiny on plain green.
The publisher says
"So close!"

Panel Five.
Designer shows a book cover to the publisher. It is completely blank, white paper.
The publisher says
"Perfection!"

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Title: "In shops now: Classic literature with added mathematics!"

Image: Four book covers.

The Prime Number of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark.
Empire of the Sum, by JG Ballard.
Wuthering Heights × lengths × widths, by Emily Bronte.
The Remains Of the Data by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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Wim De Hert @wimdehert.dungeonalchemist.com · 26/06/2026

Nothing special, but this is the timelapse of making a @dungeonalchemist.com icon in #procreate. It's along the lines of how a lot of the Dungeon Alchemist graphics are created, so feel absolutely free to ask anything you might want to know. #illustration #graphics #UIdesign

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Happy solstice. See, see as the counterstrike against the dreaded sun lands and the night begins to draw in once again. The cool and enveloping darkness lengthens across the country, even as we battle through the death throes of the sun's revenge - another heatwave crashes in across the horizon […]

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Oh, I had quite a few problems with this one... I'll get around to the sequel eventually I'm sure, but it's not high up my list because of that...

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

@sisyphusreturns.bsky.social It was good. I do think some of his other works are more my style, but this certainly holds my attention.

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Book 36 is "A Drop of Corruption" by Robert Jackson Bennett, the second Shadow of the Leviathan novel. #CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BookSky #RobertJacksonBennett #ShadowOfTheLeviathan #ADropOfCorruption

The cover of the book

A thin mountain spire sticks up in the distance across a yellow lake, seen through a circular hole in the vast foliage. Two figures with hair blowing in the wind stand in the foreground next to large stones in front of the lake.

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

@jrberkeley.bsky.social I thought it was good when I read it earlier, yes. :⁠-⁠P

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

A cartoon in which the speech bubbles are categorised by colour.

Panel 1: A man cooks dinner for a woman who is looking at his bookshelves.
He calls from the kitchen"I hope you're not judging me on my bookshelves?" (Blue)
She replies "Haha, no!" (Orange)

Panel 2: She takes a book off the shelf and asks
"Have you read all of these?" (Blue)
He replies "Of course!" (Orange)

Panel 3: she leafs through the book and asks
"Can I borrow this?' (Blue)
He replies "Sure, I love lending my books!" (Orange)

The key below explains that Blue represents a question and orange represents a lie.

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

They're all good so far, but I do have to break up reading them with other books. :⁠-⁠)

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Dr Richard Hussey @vecna.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Book 32 happened accidentally because I was at a loose end in a station for an hour with a bookshop and no book... "A Lesson In Vengeance" by Victoria Lee. #CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BookSky #VictoriaLee #ALessonInVengeance

The cover of the book.

A collection of occult and academia themed objects.
A pair of crows at the top, above crystals with roses inside.
Piles of books at the bottom with roses growing out of them.
A snake in a display jar, a skull covered in autumn leaves, the bust of a woman next to a Ouija board planchette.

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