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Revenge of the Librarians: Cartoons by Tom Gauld

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The “choose your own adventure”-style strips are fun, as is the Great Book Festival Race board game and the maze puzzle for helping a new book find its place in the market.

Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld, Hardcover | Barnes Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld, Hardcover | Barnes

Gauld’s power lies in his po-faced humour as well as his instantly recognisable art — from iconic single volumes like Goliath or Mooncop, to collections like You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack. Filled with teen drama, which by the way one of the demon’s feeds on, humor and a bit of supernatural horror this is sure to be a popular read. The story hinges on the mechanics of the demon world- the fight for the demon throne, demon possession, a tether- but it's clear that the author doesn't care at all about writing a fantasy novel and really thinking through how these fantasy elements interact with each other and what life for a demon is really like.Strips like “Review Dice” challenge the very notion of two-dimensionality in comics strips by employing a schematic that can transform the page into a three-dimensional object in the reader’s world.

Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld | Waterstones

He is the author of Goliath, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Mooncop (a New York Times bestseller), Baking with Kafka (winner of an Eisner Award) and, most recently, Department of Mind-Blowing Theories. Carino, comunque: mi ha fatto sorridere spesso, nonostante pecchi molto in originalità, ed ho addirittura screenshottato e condiviso un paio di vignette; apprezzabile il tentativo di inserire riferimenti all'attualità, in particolare al periodo del lockdown. I kind of wished that Cyn would have been more honest and upfront with Ryan so we could have avoided some of the boyfriend drama (though that drama did end up playing an important role in her battle against demons, oddly enough), and I missed a little bit of the charm that the last book had for me, BUT as a musical theater lover, I was super connected to the fun camp setting and to Cyn’s connection to theater.Like clever new German words for readers (“buchverlusterliechgterung” = relief upon finding that you have lost your copy of a book that you weren’t really enjoying), Further Instalments of the Famous Six Word Short Story “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn”, useful abbreviations like tl;dr - “rb/gb = Read a Bit, Got Bored”, and Summer Reading for Conspiracy Theorists: Slaughterhouse 5G, The Old Man and the CIA. Cyn is happily designing sets for a new musical and Ryan is starring in The Scarlet Pimpernel, but something is off.

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