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You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack: Cartoons

by Tom Gauld
(text & illus.). Drawn & Quarterly. Apr. 2013. 160p. ISBN 9781770461048. $19.95. ESSAYS
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Following on the heels of Goliath is cartoonist Gauld's (The New Yorker; The Believer) collection of weekly cartoons originally created for The Guardian. Considered the best in the field, Gauld uses a minimal, clean style that owes more to the classic elements of art than to over-the-top sight gags, giving the panels a restrained beauty to complement the oddball world they represent. This small sampling of work runs the gamut of subjects showing the author's range of talent, although literature and academia are popular topics. Readers are treated here to a Feminist Fairy Godmother and the Brontë Sisters video game, as well as a host of acutely observed thoughts on popular culture, literature, science, and human nature that use the absurd as a touch point.
VERDICT Intellectual and wryly funny and a treat for literary graphic novels readers.
Reviewed by E.W. Goodman, Art Inst. of Pittsburgh , Apr 26, 2013
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