You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack: Cartoons [Hardcover]

Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, and Kate Beaton. NPR, Best Books of 2013
A new collection from theGuardianandNew York Times Magazinecartoonist
TheNew York Times Magazinecartoonist Tom Gauld follows up his widely praised graphic novelGoliathwithYou're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, a collection of cartoons made forThe Guardian. Over the past eight years, Gauld has produced a weekly cartoon for the Saturday Review section of Britain's best-regarded newspaper. Only a handful of comics from this huge and hilarious body of work have ever been printed in North Americaand these have been available exclusively within the pages of the prestigiousBelievermagazine.
You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpackdistills perfectly Gauld's dark humor, impeccable timing, and distinctive style. Arrests by the fiction police and imaginary towns designed by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human behavior and whimsical imaginings of the future. Again and again, Gauld reaffirms his position as a first-rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

Each single-page piece is a clever, funny, slightly bonkers riff on a literary theme. The Times UK

Often intellectual, frequently absurd, always hilarious, they provide a whimsical and perceptive view of culture, literature, and life itself. Design Week

A collective narrative that explores contemporary society in depth, forcing us to scrutinise ourselves and the realities we take for granted. More importantly they're just seriously funny. It's Nice That

Tom Gauld is pretty brilliant.You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack.. is ... dark and funny. Some of the best comics in the l³J