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Graphic literature

• Bluewater announces graphic novel artist bios

  Comics publisher Bluewater has put out some truly puzzling graphic novels—including biographies of Lady Gaga, the cast of Glee, and a series about the British royal family. But the latest… Read more »

• The Art of War visualized

  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… Read more »

• Happy Birthday, Charles Dodgson

  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… 1 / Read more »

• Inuits in love – the winner of the 2011 Observer/Cape graphic short story prize

  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.… Read more »

• At what age can a cartoon legally have sex?

  (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… Read more »

• Illustrator wins the “Getting inside The Outsider” competition.

  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… Read more »

• DC Comics to ditch the Comics Code Authority

  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… 7 / Read more »

• Anatomy of a book design #5: The wisdom of birds

  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… Read more »

• "Just the place for a snark…"

  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… 2 / Read more »

• They’re pretty, but we still prefer sentences

  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,”… Read more »