Drawing inspiration from writing lives

Scottish cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld’s comic strips have been enlivening the Saturday Review section of The Guardian for years. Now he releases his first collection of those strips in a book titled You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack.

It follows last year’s Goliath, his masterly re-telling of the biblical story of David and Goliath from the giant’s point of view.

Gauld’s new book takes its title from a typically concise single panel illustration portraying a sombre-looking group representing Proper Literature, who are tut-tutting their disapproval of Science Fiction, as depicted by the cheerful figure hovering above them.