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Apostolos will be a guest on the BBC’s world arts program, The Strand. Listen live tonight (Sept. 2) at 22:32 GMT, or on satellite radio at 20:32 EST. The program will be rebroadcasted throughout the next week. Check the website for listings of the rebroadcastings and for the BBC schedule on your local station. The Strand website can be found …continue reading…
‘Logicomix’, the story of Bertrand Russell’s struggles with philosophy and his sanity, takes the graphic novel into remarkable new territory. John Walsh is gripped.
The comic strip hasn’t, historically speaking, been considered a quite suitable medium for the transmission of profound literature or thought. Tintin and Spider-Man, yes; Les Miserables and Hamlet, no. When Albert Kanter created Classic Comics (later Classics Illustrated) in 1941, his strip versions of Ivanhoe and Don Quixote were held at arm’s-length by parents and teachers, who were appalled to think their young charges might learn anything from colour-panel trash.
John Walsh, columnist for the UK daily newspaper The Independent called Logicomix “an extraordinary piece of work,” in his recent review entitled Bertrand Russell: The thinking person’s superhero. Read it here.
UK – Sept. 7th US – Sept. 29th
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Principles of philosophy and existence are colored and questioned in Logicomix, a graphic novel of depth and perception. Britain’s rara avis, Bertrand Russell, serves as the epic’s real-life philosopher/hero seeking the foundations of mathematics via logic during the first half of the 20th century. The vibrant journey traverses Russell’s troubled life, with bouts of madness, awkward romances, two world wars …continue reading…
Kirkus Reviews calls Logicomix a “far-reaching yet realistic portrayal of the precarious search for truth…” Read the full review here.
Just a week after its release in Holland, Logicomix established itself on the Volkskrant best-seller list. For information on purchasing the Dutch edition of Logicomix, click here.
By Jessica Roy and Heather McCormack “This brilliant graphic novel wraps academia’s big ideas of Truth and Meaning into a story about the thinkers and their passions, by turns fascinating and charming, with deft color art.” Read the starred review on the Library Journal website here.