Move over Harold Pinter: graphic novelists are being welcomed as artistic heavyweights (Guardian Unlimited)
Comments(0) So it is truly a sign of the times that the front cover of the annual RSL magazine for 2006 will be devoted to two graphic novelists. Posy Simmonds and Raymond Briggs were both made fellows of the society this year, the first in their genre to receive the honour. They are designing a cover for the journal together, which will trumpet the arrival of graphic novels as a respected literary form.
[The article references the Royal Society of Literature, whose members include Tom Stoppard, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter, and Doris Lessing. Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, a colleague of mine in Discourse Studies claims that I.A. Richards (who wrote The Philosophy of Rhetoric and other important texts for rhetoricians) makes a case in a different book for comics becoming part of the literary canon. I have yet to see that book. BK]
category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics