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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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)
“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)