Mooncop by Tom Gauld - ISBN: 9781770469235
Paperback
Lonely Mooncop patrols a dying colony, a funny, melancholy space tale.
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Mooncop

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  • Paperback

    96 pages

  • Release Date

    22 December 2026

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Summary

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, a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781770469235
ISBN-10:1770469230
Author:Tom Gauld
Publisher:Drawn and Quarterly
Imprint:Drawn and Quarterly
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:22 December 2026
Weight:369g
Dimensions:130mm x 163mm
Mooncop by Tom Gauld - ISBN: 9781770469235
130 × 163 mm
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Critics Review

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.

About The Author

Tom Gauld

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 New Yorker. In addition to his graphic novels Baking with Kafka, Goliath, Mooncop, and You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, he has designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.

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