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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Title: Let's create a Movie for Netflix! Jason Statham is.. [choose path 1, 2 or 3)] 1. THE EDITOR 2. THE LIBRARIAN 3. THE BOOKSELLER A heroic special forces officer retires to a sleepy town to follow his true passion of setting up a... 1. Poetry Anthology 2. Public Library 3. Local Bookshop (image of our hunky hero holding his suitcase looking at a vacant shop) He settles happily into the routine of small-town life, but when the townspeople are menaced by a... 1. Greedy Billionaire 2. Corrupt Politician 3. Evil Corporation (the hero puts doen his morning coffee and looks out the window as a sinister black helicopter lands) He must combine his literary and military skills to protect his new community with the help of... 1. An attractive poet 2. A Young Borrower 3. The Bookshop Cat (The hero runs through a hail of bullets holding a novel and a machinre gun)