Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld (born 1976) is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator. He has been awarded the Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication three times, for his books Baking With Kafka , Revenge of the Librarians (2023) , and Physics for Cats (2026) .

His style reflects his self-professed fondness of "deadpan comedy, flat dialogue, things happening offstage and impressive characters". Others note that his work "combines pathos with the farcical" and exhibits "a casual reduction of visual keys into a more rudimentary drawing style".

Career Gauld is best known for his comic books Goliath and Mooncop as well as his collections of one-page cartoons. He has also authored a number of smaller-scale books such as Guardians of the Kingdom, Robots, Monsters etc., Hunter and Painter and his cartoon Move to the City, which ran weekly in London's Time Out in 2001–2002.

Gauld studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, where he first started to draw comics "seriously", which they started in 2001. (The two volumes were subsequently published together by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2003, as Both.)

As part of commercial projects, Gauld has done some animation work; in an interview, he commented that "Comics are a lot of work but animation ... was too much." The New York Times, The Guardian and New Scientist.

While his full-length book Goliath is based on the eponymous biblical figure, Gauld is not religious.