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 collect
ion of cartoons made for "The Guardian." Over the past eight years, Gauld has pr
oduced a weekly cartoon for the Saturday Review section of Britain's best-regard
ed 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 exclusiv
ely within the pages of the prestigious "Believer" magazine.
"You"'"re All Jus
t Jealous of My Jetpack" distills perfectly Gauld's dark humor, impeccable timin
g, and distinctive style. Arrests by the fiction police and imaginary towns desi
gned by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human
behavior and whimsical imaginings of the future. Again and again, Gauld reaffir
ms his position as a first-rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep un
derstanding of both literary and cartoon history.
