# Revenge of the Librarians - Hardcover

by **Tom Gauld** (Author)

**Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the author  
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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.

### Author Biography

**Tom Gauld** is a cartoonist and illustrator. He has weekly comic strips in _The Guardian_ and _New Scientist_ and his comics have been published in _The New York Times_, _The Believer_, and on the cover of the _The_ _New Yorker_. In addition to his graphic novels _Baking with Kafka_, _Goliath_, _Mooncop_, and _You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack_, he has designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.

**Number of Pages:** 180

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 5.3 x 9.5 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 18, 2022

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