Still kind of in awe of that academic who had the gall to claim that Tillie Walden had ripped her off for Charity & Sylvia. Stephen Knight has a better case for having written From Hell, a work of similar ambition and intricacy

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So I missed this drama: apparently an academic accused a graphic novelist of plagiarizing her book and stealing her cover when (1) the graphic novelist cites the academic extensively and (2) the covers are different.

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Comics & Rhetoric, Week 7: work on questions about the ethics of nonfiction comics, centering the late-summer online debate about Tillie Walden's comic Charity & Sylvia (2026) and Rachel Hope Cleves's prose history Charity & Sylvia (2015). #comicsteaching

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This built on our previous week, which we used to plan and peer-review students' first researched comics: bsky.app/profile/gipp...

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Our conversation and classwork focused on distinguishing the different methods and assumptions present in Walden's and Cleves's versions of the same historical and biographical elements. For example, the comic uses episodic vignettes, while the prose history points to context and evidence.

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