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Laughs, science, and cats: Gauld’s hilarious physics cartoons for scientists.
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Physics for Cats

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  • Hardcover

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    28 October 2025

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Summary

Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth his sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to his electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and oversize rubber gloves.

Find out what the hadron’s news alert about CERN says! Everyone asks, “What is dark matter?” and “Where…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781837265305
ISBN-10:1837265305
Author:Tom Gauld
Publisher:Canongate Books
Imprint:Canongate Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:28 October 2025
Weight:468g
Dimensions:24mm x 212mm x 159mm
Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld - ISBN: 9781837265305
212 × 159 mm
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Critics Review

‘Gauld is my favourite hyber-minimalist brainiac cartoonist’ -WILLIAM GIBSON
‘Tom Gauld might just be the Edward Gorey of our time, channelling his wry humour and macabre aesthetic through exquisite black-and-white illustrations’ - MARIA POPOVA
‘Sublime’ - The Times

About The Author

Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld 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 and on the cover of the New Yorker. He is the author of Goliath, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Mooncop, Baking with Kafka (winner of an Eisner Award), Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Revenge of the Librarians and most recently Physics for Cats. He lives and works in London.

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