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“I Love Making People Laugh”: 40 Humorous Comics By Tom Gauld (New Pics)
Interview With Artist
Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator from Scotland that has the talent to blend entertainment with intellectual stimulation. He creates humorous and sometimes philosophical comics about literature, art, science and more.
Tom's work is regularly published in prestigious publications such as The Guardian, The New Yorker and New Scientist and he has created a number of books, the most recent being "Revenge of the Librarians".
"I love telling stories and making people laugh, and comics are such an interesting way of doing that. I'm still always learning new ways to communicate through comics and getting inspired by the way other artists make their comics," the artist previously shared with Bored Panda.
Scroll down to be captivated by his unique blend of intelligence, creativity, and whims. For more of Tom's work, check out our previous article here.
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Robecca 2 years ago
I read that cockròaches are disgusted by humans and try to clean themselves if they accidentally touch one.
naylene hess 2 years ago
Has nothing to do with humans being disgusting they just constantly clean themselves after they touch anything
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Bored Panda once again reached out to Tom to delve deeper into his creative process and gain further insights into the world of comics. Given the abundance of talented comic artists, we were curious to know Tom's perspective on the significance of cartoons within our society. According to the artist, comics are a great way to communicate almost anything. "There are lots of things in life that are depressing, so with my work, I'm mainly just trying to cheer people up a bit. Hopefully entertaining them in a reasonably intelligent way so they go away a tiny bit happier than before."
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Rwby Couch 2 years ago
Weird question, what does zey/zem mean? Is it like they/them, but different?
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Ruth Harper 2 years ago
This is why I can't read dystopian science fiction or fantasy anymore. Too realistic.
Momten Jillian 2 years ago
For a decent shot at a life well lived flee the starvation states of the GOP. The only thing they're "conserving" is your hard earned $ to feather their own nests. Favre are you listening?
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Mine Truly 2 years ago
Like 5 extra upvotes a day or something? Watch an ad or spend money for an extra upvote? I'd do it. Wake up, BP!
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That's the problem with science, it is a practice, and can be and has been proven to be utterly f*****g wrong in some instances. And yes today most scientific studies "prove" favorable results for whichever company is paying for the study. Which isn't f*****g science.
Ugh_What_Now 2 years ago
Profits over people, and when the science doesn't profit the "right" people... see comic above...
Eledore Massis 2 years ago
Let us invent fake money and sell it for real money. Let us call it: No F*****g Taste
Being an artist does not guarantee a constant flow of ideas; there are moments when people encounter creative blocks. Tom is no exception. The artist shared that in moments like these, he tries to push through. "I try to keep making things even if I'm not sure if they're any good. Sometimes I feel something is really awful but then I look at it again the next day and realize it's not bad, or I realize what needs to be fixed. I also go for a walk to get a change of scene, and maybe work in a coffee shop for a while."
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Silvermidnight 2 years ago
This cartoon specifically is read top to bottom, left to right. "Life can can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards"
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Kaare Rasmussen 2 years ago
Quote from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
I disagree, nothing i've done in the past makes any f*****g sense at all, and it won't understand it when I'm dead either cause I'll be f*****g dead. This quote makes no sense.
naylene hess 2 years ago
Might look into why certain things are the way they were. They will make sense the more you think about them however if it makes you happier to leave it be then thats fine too of course:)
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Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
Me as a kid. Mom: "It's a school night." Me:"Just let me finish this chapter." Mom: "Okay, but then go to sleep."
Talking about future projects or dreams, Tom shared that he'd like to try adapting someone else's work into a comic. "I think it would be an interesting challenge to see what I could add through images and cartooning. If I can find the right text, I'll try this sometime."
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Nathan Wolfe 2 years ago
I got in trouble in school for day dreaming constantly (ADHD and high functioning autism). Now, I'm a writer who spends all his time day dreaming, and I make double what my teachers made.
Samantha Whitley 2 years ago
Honestly, being an adult isn't all that great 😕. Enjoy your childhood to the fullest. Before you know it you'll be an adult and wishing you could be a kid again. Adulthood is really hard and stressful. I'm not saying that childhood is always easy and stress free but being an adult extremely sucks sometimes 😕.
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Lane C 2 years ago
It's OK though. They were only trying to sell auto warranties.
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Павел Жданов 2 years ago
Looks like alien civilizations have places called Nigeria with prince's in it.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
That would explain all the random emails from "Randall Davis". I have no clue who this is, but he loooooves sending me emails!
For aspiring artists who desire to start creating comics but find themselves uncertain about where or how to start, Tom offers some words of wisdom. "It's kind of obvious," the artist shared. "Just make a lot of work and try not to get discouraged when something doesn't work out quite right. And don't feel you need to write some big opus of a graphic novel to start with. I did a lot of very short comics when I was starting and I learned so much, even from the ones that were pretty bad."
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Casey Ferrill 2 years ago
Me in 1976 "Oh, I want so bad to be in a sci-fi novel, oh please, oh please, oh please!" 1976: "Okay, wait." 2023: "Happy now?" Me: ...
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Butters Stotch 2 years ago
XDDDDD my parents would kick me out if I ever said anything rude ;v;
JustAnotherPerson 2 years ago
One of teenager's parents ran away and the other is abusive. Teenager- Responds appropriately to this trauma. Society- Oh gosh darn, kids these days. Wait until your an adult. Then you'll know what it's really like to have problems.
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Capybara with a cat 2 years ago
So, in hell is a bookshop and in heaven are just folks who annoy me with religion? I prefer hell
Catman (He/Him) 2 years ago
Plus, all the cats are in hell. What's not to like?
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Richard Low 2 years ago
Mess with his mind , don't take the stairs, take the ramp and ask for a different book.
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andrea jennings 2 years ago
Just let me finish this paragraph.......page.....chapter.......just go without me I'm not stopping til the last page.
Samantha Will 2 years ago (edited)
We have a 60 page rule in our house. If you are in the last 60 pages no one can bother you
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Catman (He/Him) 2 years ago
I hate it when the earthlings melt. Always a pain to clean up.
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Navindu Wijewardena 2 years ago
That literally sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams book
Momten Jillian 2 years ago
Good luck there buddy you're already at the edge and everythings black
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Silvermidnight 2 years ago
Left: split in half to allow for understanding. Right: in the comic but without smoke and windows+door Screenshot...8b-png.jpg 
Kellan Piasecki 2 years ago
*double takes* Ahh, I get it *double takes again* on second thought.
LizardKatz 2 years ago
I can't look at this anymore. I've been staring at it for more than 5 minutes.
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Ugh_What_Now 2 years ago
Why see the rabbit as cynical? Why not peaceful, satisfied, narcoleptic? Putting a lot of blame on the bunny there... 😂
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Ricardo Ferreira 2 years ago
And then that's me, with a pile made of books before lists of books of the year were created.
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Bad Ass69 2 years ago
Have you tried pie? Pie is always right with the universe since its conception long ago! Even better pie with ice cream! Mmm mm good.
Wonky 2 years ago
Pi actually is useful when it comes to celestial objects, considering most of them are spherical
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Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
Please stop with your sarcasm, Sarah, I need to go to the hospital
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JJ_ Crank 2 years ago
This is how you learn about statistical analysis Timmy
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Firstname Lastname 2 years ago
Acceptable limits to dad or Timmy? (And someone rescue that poor floor bound penguin!)
Panda enthusiast 2 years ago
We're can I get one of these things?? I'm asking for a friend.......
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Because, the distance travelled by the earth since morning isn’t enough for it to be far enough to see that far. I expect a bunch of aliens a few light hours away might be able to see it
Cat Palmer 2 years ago
In a hundred years some confused future astronomer will get a message "the cat knocked them under the sofa".
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Raşit Karadeniz 2 years ago
Well, technical speaking, Pluto would actually be quite far enough to see like four and a half hours back in time. So, it depends on how far do you need to check. Current distance of Pluto to Earth according to Google is 5.0575 billion km and that is approximately 4 hours and 41 minutes if you take light speed as 299,997 km/sec.
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mysterious(all pronouns) 2 years ago
While it's very nice to have a real book, not every person who enjoys books finds it easy to read, so audio books have their merits.
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Tasha Love 2 years ago
Audiobooks are absolutely real books. They activate the same parts of the brain as physical books. You don't have to be illiterate or have a disability to enjoy them. I have physical books at home and audiobooks in the car.
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
like music, lot of + with mp3 but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for vinyl or cassette :)
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Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
Personal opinion: audiobooks are for those who are one of 3 things: illiterate/dyslexic/blind (incapable of reading the printed word); too busy to take any time to actually sit still long enough to read a physical book (ADHD and certain varieties of autism also fall in this category); (this last one is extremely situational) the one listening to them is extremely young and the one originally reading it to them died in the middle of the book. (That last one is actually a situation that arose with a friend of mine in grade school when their grandmother passed. The whole "audiobook" scene was extremely limited back then, but the grandmother had recorded herself reading nearly her entire library of children's books so that her grandkids and great-grandkids could still have Grandma "read to them" after she was no longer living.)
Chia 2 years ago
I’ve not listened to an audio book, but all respect to those who do, whatever the reason. I enjoy reading personally because sometimes I just fall in love with a sentence and I like to read that sentence a few times before I move on. Plus I think I’m a little too slow-witted to absorb everything if I just listen.
Jessica N 2 years ago
I adore that! Fall in love with a sentence :) I know exactly what you mean and it's one of many reasons that I find it difficult to see books made into movies
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Sinna Stevenson 2 years ago
I listen to audiobooks when I'm knitting (can't look at both at once), when I'm driving (definitely can't do both at once), and at the gym (not safe to do both at once).
RiaSaysLOL 2 years ago
You're never listening to a book, you're just listening to a podcast with the same words as a book. Books are for reading, not listening to.
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nicholas cosakavega 2 years ago
There is a saying that if you put many monkeys in front of typewriters, there is always a chance that one of them will be able to write the romeo and juliet story, word for word. It is something about probability
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Brooklyn Roffman 2 years ago
Btw, I’f u like mystery and fantasy, try a magicians guide to defensive baking, really good book
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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I just read a book on my Kindle (I won't say the author's name, I just won't get anymore of his books). The storyline was fascinating, but the writing was sh*t. All kinds of grammatical errors & he misspelled one of the main character's name multiple times (he starts of with Sylvia & then it was Silvia). One of the things I like about Kindle is you can report content errors - and I DO.
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Nathan Wolfe 2 years ago
Bill, that book is randomly floating over the park bench! See? The page just turned!
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Bad Ass69 2 years ago
Yes! Yes it is. Me and that machine would have some serious conflict there!
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago (edited)
They could steal Lucky’s speech and submit it for peer review. It would fit right in with standard academic discourse.
sara fulmer 2 years ago
Why some people pretend not to speak English so they don't have to involve themselves in mundane eye rolling small talk. Until they explodes
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juice 2 years ago
there's a play called Waiting For Godot about the purposeless of existence in which these characters spend all their time waiting for a man named Godot, only to be told he's never coming
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MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
"Friendship isn't solid or worth anything idiot, we need money to continue our studies!"
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Mika Vienonen 2 years ago (edited)
You'd think someone naming themselves CelticElff would get it.
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
That’s why people loved to visit Willard Maas and Marie Menken. Edward Abbey finally wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe after enjoying their fights
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Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
"Rapunzel ! Rapunzel, let down your hair to me !" - " sssshhhhhhh ! reading ! "
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Toast 2 years ago
« Id like a flat white with some constructive criticism and a side order of negative reviews »
Catman (He/Him) 2 years ago
I'll have what he's having, but could I get double constructive criticism. Don't worry, I'll pay extra.
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Chia 2 years ago
A tablet and e-books from the library. Problem solved. You may now tell me about how you “just love the feel of a real book in your hand.”
Norm Gilmore 2 years ago
My paper book can be dried out at a pinch (wrinkly though). Going to be a big bag of rice for the e-reader if at all..😁
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Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
I mean it's only the same as saying, how's your diet going and how was your holiday
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juice 2 years ago
♪ Oh, the grand old Duke of York. He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to the top of the hill, and he marched them down again. And when they were up, they were up. And when they were down, they were down. And when they were only halfway up, they were neither up nor down! ♪
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