Even educated fleas do it
According to an article on the Guardian site, the popularity and critical legitimacy of graphic novels has become so impossible to ignore that even the stodgy Royal Society of Literature will soon be getting in on the act. The society, whose members include Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter, and Doris Lessing, will be profiling the work of two of the U.K.’s oldest creators of graphic fiction, Posy Simmonds and Raymond Briggs, in their annual magazine. Briggs, creator of the Father Christmas books, says the recognition is long overdue: “On the Continent, graphic novels have been as accepted as films or books for many years, but England has had a snobby attitude towards them. They’ve always been seen as something just for children.”
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