The Observer | UK News | Strip lit is joining the literary elite
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... ...
Literary Life by Posy Simmonds
Black Hole by Charles Burns, described as the 'Ulysses of graphic fiction'
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