Gauld in Wimbledon

The splendid Tom Gauld recently created the cover for the new Nigel Williams novel, published by Corsair.

He has now produced a triptych of conjoined covers for Williams' most famous work, the Wimbledon Poisoner trilogy, featuring more of his weirdly expressive stick people. This is a series of books I've been meaning to read for years; now I have the perfect excuse.

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More Tom Gauld action in these posts.

Fangs, a Gauld, Saltzmans and Morstads

Having recently talked a little more about the great Tom Gauld, I thought I'd better post this new cover of his that I've just come across, for a book due out in August. It's Kevin Wilson's The Family Fang, about a pair of performance artists and their troubled offspring, who are frequently forced into being a part of their parents' artworks.

I also have a copy of the US cover, with a nice paper cut-out 3D effect, by artist Julie Morstad and designer Allison Saltzman.

This seems an opportune time to showcase some of the other design work by Saltzman, who has an extensive portfolio of wonderful cover designs...

..as well as more gorgeous work by Morstad, who has illustrated several children's books, along with other work.

 

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Gauld on Lawrence Covers

I couldn't resist this wonderful Tom Gauld cartoon on book design.

Gauld, of course, knows what of he speaks: see my post on his book cover design here. As a taster, here's his Three Musketeers cover (click for bigger).

For D. H. Lawrence covers WITHOUT sexy ladies, see here, and WITH sexy ladies, see here, and WITHOUT a clue, see here.

Unhand Me, Gray-Beard Loon

Stumbled across this one, an apparently not-available-to-buy book put together by design agency Pentagram (who've done a lot of cover work for Faber, Canongate (including the Pocket Canons discussed earlier) and others): it's a special illustrated edition of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, designed to be a showcase for the agency's artists. Click for bigger versions.







The book is designed by Angus Hyland. The cover is by Jimmy Turrell, and the interior art shown here is by (in order) Tom Gauld, Luke Best, Sam Weber and Adam Simpson. The actual book has work from many other artists. I want.

More here.

Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld is a wonderful Scottish illustrator and comics artist whose work I only discovered recently. British Guardian readers will already know his work, however. He co-runs the small Cabanon Press with fellow comics artist Simone Lia.

He has done a number of wonderful book covers. This first is for the Penguin Graphics Classics series (as featured on this blog in posts about Dorothy Parker and Jack Kerouac) edition of Dumas' The Three Musketeers.



This image is only part of the story: the cartoons extend to the back cover, the spine and the front and back flaps, too.

Gauld has also done the covers for a number of Jose Saramago's novels for Harvill/Vintage. (With everything shown here, click for more detail.)






He has also done the covers and interior art for recent editions of Ted Hughes' The Iron Man and The Iron Woman for Faber & Faber.




Interior art from The Iron Man can be seen here.

Another pair of covers cover British culture and history: The Tribes of Britain by David Miles and Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall.




Finally, here are Tom Gauld's own thoughts on cover design, from a cartoon in the Guardian.



(You also need to look here for a series of his cartoons about various writers at work, Parker included).