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.
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“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)
“The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programmes, or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)