Mooncop

Bestselling author Tom Gauld’s comedic still life of a moon colony in decline–now in paperback.

"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a brand-new super highway. Our hero, the Mooncop makes his daily rounds, his beat growing ever smaller as the population dwindles. His most pressing engagements: a young runaway who doesn’t get very far, a dog breaking off his leash, and an out-of-date automaton wandering off from the Museum of the Moon. What’s a man on the moon to do as human company gets harder and harder to come by?

Now available in paperback for the first time, Tom Gauld’s Mooncop is a prescient reflection on humanity besieged by late-stage capitalism and ever advancing technology. Equal parts funny and melancholy, Gauld’s matter-of-fact storytelling is a testament to his dedication to the craft of cartooning. | "Mooncop [is a] light, rueful comedy, whose motor is the absence of anything happening... long, lovely silent passages...Even when dreams don't quite work out, the book suggests, it can still be possible to find beauty in them."—The New York Times

"At once hilarious and achingly melancholy, [Mooncop] reads like a requiem for the future we were promised decades ago that never arrived. A quietly essential read for anyone who grew up reading sci-fi."—Wired

“Leave it to Gauld to find the quiet bit of poetry in bad news."—GQ

"At its heart, Mooncop provides an optimistic, rich metaphor for life... a fun, clever meditation on what it means to be human."—Nerdist | Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator. He has weekly comic strips in The Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in The New York Times, The Believer, and on the cover of the The New Yorker. In addition to his graphic novels Baking with Kafka, Goliath, Mooncop, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Revenge of the Librarians, and Physics for Cats, he has designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.