Take a sneak peek at the home page for Logicomix.
Goodness, there’s even a bibliography of secondary sources. Many caricatures of Russell have also been drawn over the years. The Mexican publisher Organización Editorial Novaro issued a comic book of Russell in its Vidas ilustres series in 1972 with the caption title, Bertrand Russell, el filósifo rebelde. Logicomix is by no means the first comic novel on Russell. Blackwell, a walking encyclopedia on all matters Russellian, has sent out an advanced review copy in English to an historian of logic, who is also an illustrator for magazines and newspapers. Translations into English, Turkish, French, and Chinese will soon appear on the market. A bestseller on logic amost defies logic itself. When the novel first appeared in Greece in October 2008, it created an instant buzz. Russell’s personal life from boyhood to old age is interwoven into the larger story. Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, Gottlob Frege, Georg Cantor, and a number of other philosophers and mathematicians play various roles in this epic adventure to understand the foundations of mathematics, leading to the birth of the computer. Like many graphic novels, the book also turns inward and is about the authors and their lives in contemporary Athens. Papadimitriou with artwork by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna). It’s a graphic novel of the story of logic called Logicomix (written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Of late our attention has been focused on something quite different and quite wonderful.
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