Gordon Cowan

Go Toads!

The Bridges of Ayr

Cheap eggs? You must be quakers!

The Train (1964) Trailer | Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau Movie YouTube video by Movie Trailers

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Panel One. Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books" Dog-walker "Really?" Panel Two. Front, becoming agitated "It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!" Panel Three. Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?" Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped."

Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

Night. The Department of Astrobiology building. One upper floor window is lit and a figure in it looks out and says "Dammit! Professor Monroe has all the luck!". In the car park outside, a second figure rises within a beam of light towards a flying saucer.

Title: How to focus on writing your book There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read: Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark). Put them in a drawer. Lock the drawer. Throw away the key. Leave the house. Do not look back. Keep to backroads and hedgerows. Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes) Sleep by day. Forage in the evening. Write by the light of the moon When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).

The Shop and Art for Sale at my website are open again. These original drawings, prints, and many others are available now.
www.tomgauld.com

The Demise Of Planet X is out now.💥

Buy it. Stream it. Download it.
👉 sleafordmods.ffm.to/demise

Happy New Year, to those that celebrate it. To those that don’t continue to keep it real!!

I occasionally like to share these "Mercator vs Real Country Size" animations to encourage you to buy a globe. Nothing fancy - just a basic globe. It does wonders in helping you (and your kids) to understand the world. Source: buff.ly/EGdKGR3

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Bob from Ops, A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross. Which is not a to shabby person to be.

Saltcoats & Arran

“Easy duck easy, I got this”

Literally The Road to Hell Part 2

Panel One: A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room. A voice offstage says "You can't survive on books alone" The woman replies "Maybe I can!" Panel Two: "How?" asks the voice "I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman Panel Three: Caption: However The book is filled with yet more books. A skull sits on the chair. It says "I regret nothing!"

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

“You’d look good in crocks” “……what?”

A row of parked cars in a street during a spell of heavy rain. The rain hitting the ground is making a fine spray

A wee but of rain in Saltcoats!

Quantum Entanglement Goes Rogue

Duck sake it’s warm we’re melting

Butt-breathing sea predator that roamed the ocean 500 million years ago discovered Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The half-a-billion-year-old creature, Mosura fentoni, reveals that Cambrian arthropods we...

It's super cool that fossils of this finger-size Cambrian arthropod are ~506 million years old and preserve its gut, nervous system and circulatory system

It's also neat that the species was named for Mothra, one of the very best kaiju

But honestly, you had me at "butt-breathing" 🧪

#FossilFriday

How Mapes of Millport is keeping Cumbrae moving with repairs and recycled rides With support from Cycling UK’s Cycle Access Fund, Mapes of Millport is helping people on the Isle of Cumbrae stay active, independent and connected – one refurbished bike at a time

On Scotland’s self-proclaimed cycling island, one small shop is making a big impact. With help from Cycling UK’s Cycle Access Fund, Mapes of Millport is fuelling freedom, fitness & connection — one refurbished bike at a time.

🔗 cyclinguk.org/caf-mapes

A roll with bacon and a flat white coffee sitting in a wooden bench. This was my breakfast this morning.

The ferry for Clonaig coming into Lochranza. People with bikes waiting to board

Sun setting over the village of Lochranza on Arran. Lochranza Castle is in shadow to the right of the photograph

On the road to Inverness via Clonaig, Tarbert, Loch Gilphead, Oban & Fort William…….nice so far!!

Hello there.

As always, I am on the lookout for new lettering jobs. So, if you want a plucky Brit clad in facial hair and a dressing gown to letter your comics, I'm your guy, dudes.

robjonesletteringblog.wordpress.com

We’ll witness protection sucks.

Saltcoats Harbour

Officer, I think I’m being stalked!

Here kitty, are you in there

reason NO FOXES at car wash

A drone photograph high above the Scottish town of Ardrossan to the right is the Firth of Clyde and in the distance the towns of Saltcoats, Stevenston and Irvine. In the foreground is Castle Hill and its, lower right, monument dedicated to Dr Alexander MacFadzean worthy of the town.

Some times it’s nice!