ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
Latest editorial
The ABC of Typography by David Rault
Excellent graphic account of how written word in print and online came into being
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
THE alluring idea behind David Rault’s entertaining and instructive comic book The ABC of Typography is that a graphic account of the development of Latin script would introduce a new generation to the historical framework in which the visual appearance of the written word developed.
Comic books appeal to a very wide readership, from pre-school children through to earnest intellectuals, and their great facility in conveying complex ideas in an accessible way makes them an ideal medium for the instruction as well as entertainment that this book provides.
Similar stories
RUTH AYLETT recommends that this mixture of memoir, diary and poetry by a young Gazan writer be read as widely as possible
JULIA THOMAS unpicks the mental processes that explain why book-to-film adaptations so often disappoint
SETH SANDRONSKY savours a personal account of the life and thought of the great Italian revolutionary
Reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling, posits HARRIET EARLE