Tom Gauld Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Le robot et la princesse sont nés dans un couple royal sans enfant grâce à l'aide d'une inventrice et d'une sorcière. Chaque jour, grâce à une formule secrète, le frère réveille sa soeur qui se transforme en bûche lorsqu'elle s'endort. Un matin, le robot oublie sa mission et la servante jette la bûche par la fenêtre. Le petit robot part à la recherche de la princesse.

Una aventura memorable destinada a convertirse en un clásico contemporáneo del género de «cuentos de buenas noches». El rey y la reina, tras años de anhelar un hijo, reciben un regalo doble: un robot de madera y una princesa tronco. Sin embargo, hay un inconveniente: cada noche, la princesa se convierte en un simple trozo de madera, y solo puede ser despertada con las palabras mágicas «Despierta, tronquito, despierta». La inseparable pareja enfrenta un desafío cuando la princesa, en su forma dormida, es llevada por error a un lugar desconocido. Su leal hermano robot emprende una búsqueda para encontrarla y devolverla al reino. Durante su travesía, se encuentra con personajes peculiares como la Reina de las Setas, un pudin mágico, un bebé en un rosal y una anciana en una botella. Este relato, obra del aclamado novelista gráfico Tom Gauld, es su primer libro ilustrado para niños, inspirado en una historia que creó para sus hijas. Gauld busca combinar la esencia de los libros que disfrutó en su infancia, los que sus hijas aprecian y aquellos que le gustan como adulto, creando una narrativa única que funciona como un clásico cuento de buenas noches.

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

A whimsical modern fairy tale from internationally renowned cartoonist, Tom Gauld.

A whimsical modern fairy tale from internationally renowned cartoonist, Tom Gauld. Now available in paperback

A collection of one hundred and fifty comic strips topical and funny enough to engage any layperson with a rudimentary recall of their old science classes as well as those who consider themselves boffins of the contemporary physical and natural world

In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse?- What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake?- And what plot possibilities does the exploding e-cigarette offer modern mystery writers?A riotous collection of laugh-out-loud cartoons in his signature style, Baking with Kafka reaffirms Gauld's position as a first-rate cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

« Tout d’un coup, j’ai réalisé que ce minuscule petit pois, bleu et joli, était la Terre (…) Loin de me croire un géant, je me suis senti petit, tout petit. » Neil Armstrong, 1970 Le policier de la Lune arpente sans relâche la vaste étendue rocailleuse. À bord de sa navette à la pointe de la technologie, il patrouille pour protéger les braves citoyens de la colonie lunaire. Mais les tours à la machine à donuts et les conversations techniques avec son robot-compagnon sont les deux seules occupations qu’un insolent taux de criminalité de 0 % lui impose. Le dernier flic de la lune s’ennuie. Sa solitude témoigne de l’échec de la plus ancienne colonie humaine dans l’espace. Partie à la conquête d’une nouvelle Terre Promise, la société pleine d’espoirs s’est pris les pieds dans le tapis gris à poils ras de la modernité… Avec Police Lunaire, Tom Gauld propose un drame à rebours d’un film d’action qui montre que la conquête spatiale mène successivement à la désillusion, à la solitude et aux donuts. Après son truculent recueil Vous êtes tous jaloux de mon Jetpack et l’excellent Vers la ville, road-movie à la Beckett, Tom Gauld livre un nouveau récit drôle et mélancolique sur l’absurdité de nos civilisations technologiques.

"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’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.