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Tom Gauld
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Cartoonist and Illustrator. My latest book of cartoons, REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS, is out now! www.tomgauld.com
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

A writer sits in her publisher's office and says:
"I've got an idea for a story that examines multiple outcomes for each action."

The publisher's three possible replies are depicted:
1. I love it!
2. Hmm. It might work.
3. That sounds terrible.

Depending on the publisher's reply, she leaves the room saying:
I'll send you a draft in three months.
or
To hell with you! I'll write it anyway.

Both versions lead to an image captioned "Nine years later..." which shows the writer surrounded by notes and drafts, saying "Finished! Finally!" and this leads to images of the writer holding either:


1. a rejection letter
2. a sheaf of polite reviews
3. a Nobel prize

And yet, inevitably all the possibilities land with the same image:
The writer's gravestone lit by the moon.
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mayaenaise.bsky.social

📌

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Zzefram.bsky.social

Bioware game choices in a nutshell.

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Orowyourbot.bsky.social

This is LEGITIMATELY brilliant. Like really, really, really. Maybe it just speaks to me. I was recently thinking about this—where people say ‘I wasted my life because I did not X,’ in a way that implies if you did X, you would have had MORE life. But no! You would have had THE SAME. And then DIED.

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SCwikisteff.bsky.social

Dark, but I **love** the idea so much!!

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TUrorykelly.bsky.social

Choose Your Own Advent of Death

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Genius.

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Aaemeth.bsky.social

sound and fury, but a lot of fun in the middle

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AGahumbleman.bsky.social

oof, that ending

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AOskyblu.bsky.social

Omg you're the person who did my snooty bookshop postcards! ❤️Follow

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SMmarypcbuk.bsky.social

Wow, I did not see that ending coming

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Tom Gauld
@tomgauld.bsky.social
Cartoonist and Illustrator. My latest book of cartoons, REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS, is out now! www.tomgauld.com
36.3k followers69 following426 posts