Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Strip lit is joining the literary elite

Here’s one of those MSM stories that appears to have been found in a time capsule.

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Strip lit is joining the literary elite:

The Royal Society of Literature is Britain’s oldest, and some might say stuffiest, literary society. Its fellowship has traditionally consisted of the most eminent playwrights, novelists and poets in the country. Tom Stoppard, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing are among the current fellows.

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

When was Art Spiegelman’s MAUS published? When did R. Crumb flourish? Many literary people have been well aware of graphic novels since, well, forty or fifty years ago…

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