{"id":33237,"date":"2025-04-29T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33237"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:51:27","slug":"meeting-of-may-10-the-cartoons-of-tom-gauld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33237","title":{"rendered":"Meeting of May 10: \u00a0The Cartoons of Tom Gauld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Looking forward to our May 10th meeting!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<b>The Cartoons of Tom Gauld:\u00a0<\/b><b>SF, fantasy, literature, and <\/b><b>commentary.\u00a0<\/b><b>And books.\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Tom Gauld (born 1976) is an astonishingly prolific Scottish cartoonist. His cartoons cover\u00a0a wide range: science, science fiction, fantasy, role playing games, classic literature, politics, and more. Gauld happily combines different genres in a single cartoon. Vampire tropes \u2013 and modern politics. Classic literature \u2013 and science fiction. Fantasy \u2013 and the reality of television. Not only does Gauld love books \u2013 he also loves booklovers.<\/p>\n<p>He publishes in major newspapers and magazines including The New Scientist, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and more. His work has been collected in more than 20 books.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33238\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cartoon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33238 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cartoon-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cartoon-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cartoon-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cartoon-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cartoon.png 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Gauld\u2019s best-known cartoons, showing the eternal struggle between science and science fiction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking forward to our May 10th meeting! \u00a0The Cartoons of Tom Gauld:\u00a0SF, fantasy, literature, and commentary.\u00a0And books.\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Gauld (born 1976) is an astonishingly prolific Scottish cartoonist. His cartoons cover\u00a0a wide range: science, science fiction, fantasy, role playing games, classic literature, politics, and more. Gauld happily combines different genres in a single cartoon. Vampire tropes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meeting of May 10: \u00a0The Cartoons of Tom Gauld<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-meeting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33239,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237\/revisions\/33239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}