The classic Sun Tzu work The Art of War has been turned into a graphic novel by writer Kelly Roman and illustrator Michael DeWeese. According to GalleyCat, Roman and DeWeese have integrated the ancient military treatise into a story set 20 years in the future, in…
On this date, January 27, the eminent mathematician and Fellow of Christ Church college, Oxford, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in 1832. He is the distinguished author of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations (1867); two…
Below is the winning story of the 2011 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize, written and illustrated by Isabel Greenberg, a 23-year-old University of Brighton graduate who lives with her parents in North London. With the £1,000 prize she plans to buy either “photoshop” or “500 bottles of Winsor &…
(Via Quill and Quire) The New York-based Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Canadian organization Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund have joined forces to pay the legal costs of an American man who is being charged with importing and possession of child pornography after…
In London last night, House of Illustration and The Folio Society announced the winner for their inaugural Book Illustration Competition: Matthew Richardson. Richardson, winner of the ’Getting inside The Outsider’ competition, won a £4000 commission to complete the illustrations in a new edition of Camus’s L’Étranger. Below are a few of…
In 1954, the Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA), under the pressure of an increasingly concerned public, the questionable work of Dr. Fredric Wertham, and the fear of possible government regulations, decided that it would be within their best interest to install their own self-regulatory…
This is the fifth installment of a series by artist Mahendra Singh on the process of adapting Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense poem, The Hunting of a Snark, into a graphic presentation. Like most of Carroll’s work, this poem has seen various iterations since it was written in 1874 but…
In 1879, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson–a.k.a. Lewis Carroll–published the classic “nonsense” poem, The Hunting of the Snark. Though often outshined by Carroll’s prose works like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Snark is beloved by Carroll fans and has been adapted in numerous iterations since it was originally…
Another recent Flavorwire post we enjoyed transformed the Hipster Runoff excerpt of Tao Lin‘s Richard Yates into this word cloud: For those of you unfamiliar with making “beautiful word clouds,” you can generate your own at the website Wordle. It’s super easy and ridiculously addictive.…
“It may be a shocking dilution of academics — or an ingenious way to hook reluctant readers,” but, as Teresa Méndez says in a Christian Science Monitor report, in upstate New York, one ninth-grade English teacher is using “graphic novels” instead of books to try…
