Física cuántica, gatos y humor: los tres misterios del universo reunidos en las mejores viñetas de Tom Gauld.
Tom Gauld, el dibujante que ama los libros, expande en cada viñeta su estilo ingenioso, memorable, imaginativo y muy divertido.
Extrapolando datos, podemos predecir con una certeza del 99,99 % que, seas o no del mundo de la ciencia, al leer esta recopilación de viñetas publicadas para New Scientist a) te reirás, b) te mondarás, c) te troncharás o d) te descoyuntarás (no disponemos de una muestra lo bastante amplia como para poder afirmar qué tipo concreto de alegría experimentarás con esta magnífica obra).
La critica ha dicho:
"Gauld ha sido probablemente la primera persona en imaginarse que se podían hacer tiras cómicas de ciencia. Y algunos de sus títulos dejan entrever la mina de oro que ha encontrado en un terreno en apariencia sombrío"
The New York Times
"Es un maestro en realzar el humor mediante la sutileza"
The Washington Post
| Tom Gauld was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1976. As a child his favourite things were drawing, lego, and playing soldiers. He studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2001, Tom started small-press publishing venture Cabanon Press with Simone Lia while they were studying at the Royal College of Art. They published a number of books including First, Second, Three Very Small Comics, and Fluffy. Tom works as an illustrator and cartoonist and has contributed work to The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Believer, The New York Times, and Granta. He illustrated the children’s book The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and made a comic-strip cover for Penguin Books’ deluxe edition of The Three Musketeers. He has created a number of short comic books including Guardians of the Kingdom, Hunter and Painter, and The Gigantic Robot. His comics have appeared in the three most recent editions of the comics anthology Kramers Ergot. In 2008 he was artist-in-residence at the Fumetto Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. Since 2005 Tom has made a weekly cartoon about the arts which appears in the Guardian’s Saturday Review section. He lives in London, England, with his partner and two daughters.
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