He’s an illustrator for the Guardian and I like his stuff.

Tom Gauld’s comics are about literary stuff:

Ha! I got through three chapters of Ulysses. One day, I will neglect my well being and die reading it.

But he’s not some book snob. He’s also open to popular literature:

For a museum person like me (fresh out of a mid-career exhibition communication class, no less!), I love how the T-rex skull pretty well flips off the other fossils as he reaches the museum a-list:

Detail to admire: the scruffiness of the other animal specimens.

Finally, Mr. Gauld’s dystopian vacation offer is tantalizing:

To experience the excitement of Brazil for a few days! To study the class distinctions of the Handmaid’s Tale for a few weeks! To mingle with New Crobuzon’s khephri, vodyanoi and cactacae, and to lunch in remade dive bars, what a vacation!

If I drew comics, Tom Gauld would be my inspiration. He likes minefields, spooky trees, abandoned laboratories, angry bees, nettles and crazy hermits. Just like me.

For near daily frequent updates, check out his Flickr page.

*All images used with permission. Thanks, Mr. Gauld!