Baking with Kafka

2018 EISNER AWARD-WINNER - BEST HUMOUR PUBLICATION In Baking with Kafka , Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse? - What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake? - And what plot possibilities does the exploding e-cigarette offer modern mystery writers? A riotous collection of laugh-out-loud cartoons in his signature style, Baking with Kafka reaffirms Gauld's position as a first-rate cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

About the author

Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire. He is a cartoonist and illustrator with weekly comic strips in the Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in the New York Times. He is the author of the comic books Goliath, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Mooncop (a New York Times bestseller) and Baking with Kafka (winner of Best Humour Publication at the 2018 Eisner Awards). He has also designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.

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Product details

• Authors: Tom Gauld, Gauld Tom
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781786891501
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-150-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 208 mm x 157 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; HUMOR / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons, Humour, Cartoons & comic strips, Comic book and cartoon artwork