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Baking with Kafka: Tom Gauld
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2018 EISNER AWARD-WINNER - BEST HUMOUR PUBLICATION
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.
- Print length160 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date7 Sept. 2017
- Dimensions21.1 x 1.8 x 15.7 cm
- ISBN-109781786891501
- ISBN-13978-1786891501
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"Tom Gauld might just be the Edward Gorey of our time, channelling his wry humour and macabre aesthetic through exquisite black-and-white illustrations" -- MARIA POPOVA
"Each single-page piece is a clever, funny, slightly bonkers riff on a literary theme . . . Sublime" ― The Times
"One of the best cartoonists around!" ― BoingBoing
"Praise for the works of Tom Gauld: Heartwarming" ― Guardian
"At once hilarious and achingly melancholy . . . A quietly essential read" ― Wired
"His economical art . . . is married to dry, incisive humor, making each strip a carefully composed marvel" ― Publishers Weekly
"The ironic takes on key moments in history and literature (Armstrong on the moon, Cathy and Heathcliff wandering the moor) will certainly elicit a few laughs" ― Vogue
"Gauld's deceptively simple panels and sparse, understated dialogue speak poetically . . . Gauld finds humour and hope - as well as coffee and doughnuts - in his portrait of a fading utopia" ― Guardian
"Precise and wryly hilarious" ― NPR, Best Books of 2013
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- 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.
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- 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.
About the Author
Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire. He is a cartoonist and illustrator with weekly comic strips in the Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in the New York Times. He is the author of the comic books Goliath, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Mooncop (a New York Times bestseller) and Baking with Kafka (winner of Best Humour Publication at the 2018 Eisner Awards). He has also designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.
@tomgauld | tomgauld.com
Product details
- ASIN : 1786891506
- Publisher : Canongate Books
- Publication date : 7 Sept. 2017
- Edition : Main
- Language : English
- Print length : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781786891501
- ISBN-13 : 978-1786891501
- Item weight : 470 g
- Dimensions : 21.1 x 1.8 x 15.7 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 282,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 111 in How to Create Anime & Cartoons
- 338 in Comic Strips
- 546 in Humour Collections & Anthologies
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