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Bertrand Russell Graphic Novel Smashes Charts

To be fair, it was never going to be a book greenlit by Marvel Comics. But Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth, a Greek comic book biography on the life of philosopher Bertrand Russell is currently No 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List – Paperback Graphic Novels and is the 4th bestselling graphic novel on Amazon.com and the 3rd bestselling graphic novel in the UK.

It's also the most internationally well-received edition of a Greek book of any sort in the last three decades

The book intertwines Russell's theories of philiosophy, pacificism, sexual liberation, mathematics and logic, with his attempt to stave off  mental illness that affected so many other mathematicians, while the rise of the Nazi Party begins to threaten many of their lives. And a whole stack of womanising to boot.

Logicomix was co-written by author Apostolos Doxiadis and Berkeley professor Christos Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna who drew on location in the places where the book is set.

Here's a quick preview of the book;

You can see a documentary on the making of this remarkable comic in the videos below.

Biographies are clearly the new scantily clad women…

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