Tom Gauld covers The New Yorker Dec 2017

Going past vacant lots filled with large Christmas trees, I have often wondered how people take them home,” the Londoner Tom Gauld says, about his inspiration for this week’s cover. “My family and I always have Christmas in the countryside, where you choose a tree and point it out to the man with the chain saw–a very different experience. I’m fascinated by this strange annual migration where large trees come to the city for their final moment of glory.-Tom Gauld