Woman's World (novel)
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Woman's World is the title of a 2005 novel by Graham Rawle
. It is unique for having been created entirely from fragments of text clipped from 1960s women's magazines.
The book describes itself (in its subtitle) as "a graphic novel", but anyone expecting a graphic novel
in the comic book
tradition will be surprised: the novel is a graphic novel in the sense that it has been constructed visually from cutouts of various 60's women's magazines. The medium of the novel creates different layers of meaning within the plot, leading to insightful, hilarious, and often heartbreaking moments.
Graham Rawle
Graham Rawle is a UK writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly Lost Consonants series appeared in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years...
. It is unique for having been created entirely from fragments of text clipped from 1960s women's magazines.
The book describes itself (in its subtitle) as "a graphic novel", but anyone expecting a graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
in the comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
tradition will be surprised: the novel is a graphic novel in the sense that it has been constructed visually from cutouts of various 60's women's magazines. The medium of the novel creates different layers of meaning within the plot, leading to insightful, hilarious, and often heartbreaking moments.
Construction
The novel contains a short postscript in which the author discusses the process of creating a novel entirely by cut-and-paste. He first drafted the novel in outline, then collated words, sentences and paragraphs from the original source material, storing them in catalogue files, before pasting each page together from the organised snippets. The pages were then scanned for mass publication.External links
- Woman's World described on Graham Rawle's official website
- Reviews: