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Tom Gauld

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Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator. He draws weekly cartoons for the Guardian newspaper and New Scientist magazine. He has created eight covers for the New Yorker and a number of comic books. He lives and works in London.

Some process images for my cover for this week’s New Yorker (2 of 2)
1 - final Ink drawing.
2 -…

A photograph of the ink on paper drawing for a New Yorker cover.The cover is almost completely filled with a large classic painting in a gold frame. It shows a landscape with hills, rocks and trees. A horse and rider stand on a rocky outcrop overlooking a plain that stretches out to the sea. In the bottom left corner of the cover, a smiling tourist takes a selfie with the painting behind him. ALTA closeup of the cover image.ALTThe British Museum WebsiteObject Type:DrawingMuseum number:00,9.9Description:Mountain landscape with a river; four travellers near a tall, slender tree at left, others including two mounted, on a path moving towards cottages to right, a castle on a craggy, partially wooded mountain beyond. 1553Pen and brown inkWatermark: lozenge with five stars (centre), 41 × 45 mm. Very close to Briquet 6098 (from Prague, 1543).Producer name:Pieter Bruegel the ElderSchool/style:NetherlandishProduction date:1553ALTThe NEW YORKERCover StoryTom Gauld's "Landscape Portrait"By Françoise Mouly, Art by Tom GauldFor the cover of the June 29, 2026, issue, the British cartoonist Tom Gauld took inspiration from a visit to an exhibition of early-Netherlandish drawings at the British Museum. "I was blown away by the landscapes-small and intricate, but with such depth, drawing your eye from blades of grass in the foreground to a ship on the horizon," Gauld said. "And, as soon as I stepped out of the quiet darkness of the exhibit, I was surrounded by flocks of happy tourists snapping away with their phones."Find Tom Gauld's covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store.ALT

Some process images for my cover for this week’s New Yorker (2 of 2)
1 - final Ink drawing.
2 - Close-up of the finished image.
3 - A drawing from the show that inspired my image.
4 - New Yorker web page on the cover.

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“I’d never thought much about the moon before I got this job. But I love it here. I can spend hours just looking out at the stars and the rocks. It makes me feel very peaceful.”
Tom Gauld, Mooncop

“He marks his place in books by folding over the corner of the page.”

“Burn his letters and send back the ring! I cannot marry a monster!”
Tom Gauld, Revenge of the Librarians

“Failure plays his trumpet at dawn, but success rides his bicycle through the woods at night.”
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