And on the day of his assassination an anonymous diarist filled a remarkable book with drawings of the texts, signs and banners he saw posted in New York's storefronts, fire stations and homes (a touch screen allows you to leaf through the book): "Such a death saddens even victory," reads one.
Over and between the drawings are fragments of text cut through sheets of white Perspex.
It's just sixteen beautiful pages of crude and masterful ink drawings, strong uses of text and composition and the sentence "I was sprayed with the electric web" over and over again.
It opens out, in its exuberant middle stretch, into a kind of cosmic comic strip, pages printed on brown paper with prototypically "psychedelic" line drawings blossoming around blocks of text set ALL IN CAPS and running up the pages at right angles, requiring the reader to turn the book on its side.
That includes its famous stipple drawings and distinctive layout of text and columns.
Yet each of her projects establishes within it an entire world that, even if executed in cartoonish drawings and a dash of text, comes across precisely.
LONDON — The 6,000 or so extant pages of text and drawings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci are thought to represent only about one-fifth of his output.
Filled with drawings of trees, people and text made on the pages of old encyclopedias, the show also includes several animated videos and sculptural sound pieces, including one built from drums and percussion instruments and another that transforms old sewing machines into a hand-cranked phonograph.
Begin with cave drawings and end with the development of text messaging.
A spoiler warning is probably unnecessary, as many people will know the payoff from Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a singular combination of text and intricate drawings.
