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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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Today on the Incidental Comics newsletter I explore new forms of comics design, including this three-dimensional page structure. What new forms will you create?

https://incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/the-shape-of-poems-to-come

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

I'll be visiting Watermark Books today to read and sign POETRY COMICS. Go out and support your local bookshop!

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News Note: A Bill Has Been Introduced in the Illinois Legislature Limiting Women's Hats to a Diameter of Eighteen Inches

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

This illustration entitled, "News Note: A Bill Has Been Introduced in the Illinois Legislature Limiting Women's Hats to a Diameter of Eighteen Inches", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on April 24, 1909, depicts the serious nature of issues caused by women wearing large hats, especially for men sitting behind them at sporting events.

Two women with enormous hats sit in the front row of a sporting event.  One is holding a scorecard and pencil.  The men behind them are maneuvering to see around them.  A man further back is standing up calling to a policeman, “Officer, do your duty!”  The man wears a sport coat, tie, starched collar, and a straw hat.  The other men in the stands are similarly dressed.  The police officer is standing amid the crowded stands.  His helmet says, “Hat Cop.”  He holds an 18 inch ruler and measuring tape.

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Letter from Louise E. Jefferson to Secretary Harold Ickes Regarding Marian Anderson's Concert

Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the InteriorSeries: Central Classified FilesFile Unit: Racial Discrimination - Anderson, Marian

[stamped in upper right corner "Interior Dept Recvd Apr 14 1939 Office of the Secretary"]

Louise E. Jefferson

130 West 130 St.,

New York City, N.Y.

April 13, 1939

Honorable Secretary Harold Ickes

Department of Interior

Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Ickes,

It is safe to say that eight million Negroes listened to the glorious voice of Miss Marion Anderson on Sunday last: listened with gratitude for her offering but with deeper gratitude to you for making it possible.  

The occasion was the most significant and distinctive that has yet occurred to promote better race relations and to sponsor Negro achievement.

Please accept my thanks and congratulations for affording this honor and privilege.

Most respectfully,

Louise E. Jefferson

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jess allen, the passing of time (2023)

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Illustrations by Dutch designer, Kees Kelfkens (1919-1986)

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My latest Guardian Books cartoon

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“The book feels so fundamental to me, now, that I find it hard to cast my mind back to a time when I hadn’t read it, and harder still to explain what it’s about, because it seems to be about everything. It’s a novel about work and the moral value of work; the importance – indeed the necessity – of finding the job you’re fitted for and doing it to the very best of your abilities. It’s about truth, and the need, in a slippery, shifting world, to find the one true thing you’re willing to defend, no matter what the personal cost. It’s about friendship, and how it ebbs and flows as you yourself grow – or stop growing. It’s about writing: what it means to write well and how to do it. It’s about love and integrity, and the thought and work and consideration that must go into establishing and maintaining a relationship of equality and mutual respect. It’s about class and sex and society between the wars. And above all, it’s about the age-old question (which at the time of writing was a fresh, new one) of whether it’s possible for a woman to have it all: to have a life of the mind and of the heart, and to do equal honour to them both.”

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My latest for Guardian Books.

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ghost choir 👻 🎵

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I've added five new limited edition prints to the shop at www.tomgauld.com/shop. This is one of them.

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 💕 Illustrated by Anna & Elena Balbusso (2013)

Fuente: Facebook, My Jane Austen Book Club

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Struggling on your creative path? The new Incidental Comics newsletter will help guide your journey:

https://incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/no-time-for-burnout