Physics for Cats

Tom Gauld

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Canongate Classics
28 October 2025

Fiction & Literature; Cartoons & comic strips; Cats as pets

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 is dark matter?"" but do they ever take the time to ask, ""How is dark matter?"" Based all on previous data, we can predict with a 99.99% certainty that you will either laugh, guffaw, chortle or snort (we don't have a large enough sample set to be able to say which particular type of mirth you will experience.)

By: Tom Gauld
Imprint: Canongate Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 159mm, Width: 212mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 468g
ISBN: 9781837265305
ISBN 10: 1837265305
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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. @tomgauld | tomgauld.com

Reviews for Physics for Cats

'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