Reading Time: 4 minutes Hope Larson illustrates Calvin O’Keefe as the geek he truly is in the ‘Wrinkle In Time’ Graphic Novel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012 I can’t write a series on the minutiae of A Wrinkle In Time without devoting at least one post to my first literary boyfriend, Calvin O’Keefe. Now, I […]
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Everyone needs to be reminded, sometimes, that they, too, can be a hero. Such is the importance of Meg Murry for all the awkward self-loathing nerds who discover her.
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Is it better to have a slightly wrong label if it gets you the help you need?
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One little sentence, one little personal connection between me and a woman who’d unwittingly changed my life, the woman I would name my daughter after eight years later.
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The newest feature film adaptation of ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ is casting mixed-race and minority leads, and I for one am all for it.
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The idea of a tesseract has been used in fiction quite a bit since the term was coined—can you believe it?—in 1888. Here are a few examples.
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Most of the comics I’ve listed in my serious comics posts are ones that I would argue qualify as capital-L Literature. Of course, there are plenty of non-comics books that qualify as Literature already—and some of those have been turned into comics. Here are a handful of literature-based or literature-inspired comics that we think are worth reading. My recommendation: if you like these, then seek out the source texts as well.
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