Comics and Graphic Novels
- 1981 — Fone, a science fiction comic by Milo Manara.
- 1989 — In the comic strip Dilbert, Dogbert tells Dilbert that his poem would take "three monkeys, ten minutes".
- 1990 — The Animal Man comic by Grant Morrison (a revival of the Animal Man DC character) contained an issue (Monkey Puzzles) including a monkey who typed not only the works of Shakespeare, but comic books as well. The TPB this issue is collected in (Deus ex Machina — 2003) featured an "infinite" number of Grant Morrisons typing on the cover.
- 2008 — The cartoonist Ruben Bolling satirized the thought experiment in his Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon, with a monkey asking "How can I credibly delay Hamlet's revenge until Act V" in the final frame.
- 2008 — In a comic book written by Scott McCloud about Google Chrome, monkeys on laptops are used as an analogy to random data.
- 2009 — In the graphic novel Umineko: When They Cry, Bernkastel was involved in such a situation that she had to type the word "Miracle" randomly on a typewriter. After an extraordinary amount of time, she accomplished the task and became the Witch of Miracles.
Read more about this topic: Infinite Monkey Theorem In Popular Culture
Famous quotes containing the words graphic and/or novels:
“Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)