Travelling Man Leeds have a signing and talk with the amazing Guardian cartoonist and comic creator Tom Gauld on April 5th at 5pm. The talk will be about his creative process and the making of his new book Goliath.
The signing is open to all but places for the talk are limited due to space. If anyone would like to sign up you can call Travelling Man Leeds on 0113 2436461 or email [email protected]. The event is free to all
A MASTER OF STRIPPED-DOWN, POWERFUL STORYTELLING REWORKS THE DAVID AND GOLIATH MYTH.
“Gauld’s Goliath is a master class in reduction…a celebration of the Christian underdog becomes a subtle meditation on the power of spin and the absurdity of war.”–The Times of London
Goliath of Gath isn’t much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he’d pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king, he finds himself issuing a twice-daily challenge to the Israelites: “Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight. If he be able to kill me, then we shall be your servants. But if I kill him, then you shall be our servants.”
From one of Britain’s most popular cartoonists, Goliath displays a sensitive wit, a bold line, and a traditional narrative reworked, remade, and revolutionized.
Tom Gauld was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1976. As a child his favourite things were drawing, lego and playing soldiers.
He studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2001, Tom started small-press publishing venture ‘Cabanon Press’ with Simone Lia while they were studying at the Royal College of Art. They published a number of books including ‘First’, ‘Second’, ‘Three Very Small Comics’ and ‘Fluffy’.
Tom works as an illustrator and cartoonist and has contributed work to The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Believer, The New York Times and Granta. He illustrated the children’s book ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes and made a comic-strip cover for Penguin Books’ deluxe edition of ‘The Three Musketeers’.
He has created a number of short comic books including ‘Guardians of the Kingdom’, ‘Hunter and Painter’ and ‘The Gigantic Robot’. His comics have appeared in the three most recent editions of comics anthology comics Kramers Ergot.
In 2008 he was artist-in-residence at the Fumetto festival in Lucerne, Switzerland.
For the past five years Tom has made a weekly cartoon about the arts which appears in the Guardian newspaper’s saturday Review section.
He lives in London, England with his partner and two daughters.