Revenge of the Librarians

Locations
Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Gauld, Tom, Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / General / Gauld, Tom
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

Originally published in The Guardian.
"Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism of the vainglorious poet. Quake in the presence of the stack of bedside books as it grows taller! Gnash your teeth at the ever-moving deadline that the writer never meets! Quail before the critic's incisive dissection of the manuscript! And most importantly, seethe with envy at the paragon of creative productivity! Revenge of the Librarians contains even more murders, drubbings, and castigations than The Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Baking For Kafka, or any other collections of mordant scribblings by the inimitably excellent Gauld."-- Publisher marketing.

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COMMUNITY REVIEWS

clever and funny! submitted by nemiller on June 21, 2023, 1:08pm Clever and funny!

It's probably best not to read them all at once, or they'll sort of blur together, but that's probably true of most one-page comic collections. I read it in chunks and really enjoyed it.

I wasn't a huge fan of his other book, You're All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack. I liked Revenge of the Librarians a lot better.