Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect

I’m working on a new project.
It’s basically exploring this whole issue of bankers and bonuses and bailouts. I want to be able to explain it in a simple way, and represent many different viewpoints. I see this work as ultimately a story and drawings, probably a mini graphic novel/ booklet.
While I’ve been researching this subject, [...]

… that I should have taken more notice of - as it was so spot on. I’ve been looking through some old notes, concerning my work/ideas and specifically about analysing which areas I wanted to explore. There’s some very wise advice.
I think this is a useful exercise for me at the moment, as am now starting [...]

Japanese bookstores are preparing for what they expect to be the publishing phenomenon of the year: Das Kapital – the manga version.
“The comic, which goes on sale early next month, plays into a growing fascination among Japan’s hard-working labour force with socialist literature and joins a collection of increasingly fierce literary critiques of the [...]

Good article in today’s Guardian listing this guy’s top 10 graphic novels. Some great ones listed, quite a few I didn’t know about (though should have done). 

Over the past few months I’ve had lots of ideas for short stories, but never get enough chunk time to take them further. So they end up lost in my notebook. I’m also pulled away from a traditional format all the time, as I always want to add interactive and collborative aspects, and this confuses [...]

I like the idea of explaining things through comics or graphic novels. Call them info-comics or docu-comics maybe, suited to explaining complexed or dry subjects in an accessible way. I realise this is a surreal example, but it could be applied to a real or true subject or story, explaining serious issues in a contemporary [...]

Buddy Rivers has been accepted for the Hacker Fest in Paris: Wednesday 18th June:
Workshop Day #1 (Hacker-centric workshops)
* Wikidot: your wiki website in 3 minutes - Benjamin Henrion
* Logz & web 1.9 - Loz
* Buddy Rivers Live - Dave Miller
* L’art viral / Détournements artistiques dans le champ technosocial - maxime marion
* NoOOXML - Benjamin Henrion* [...]

Le Reprobateur/The Reprover by Francois Coulon.”The central conceit of Le Reprobateur is the profession of Reprobateurs or Reprovers, whose practitioners hire themselves out to act as external consciences for their weaker-willed clients. They stand alongside those clients throughout their daily lives and silently disapprove of any immoral or self-indulgent behaviour on their part, thereby helping [...]

Here’s a small experimental project that I was working on a few weeks ago. I ended up getting side-tracked and forgot about it, but I think it’s got possibilities as an interesting way to tell stories. It’s a collage generator, which builds a picture as an html page. It takes images from a folder and [...]