Common sense tells us that the fastest way to break a young person’s brain is to show them horror movies and scenes of abject violence. But this is also a bit misleading: screen-based trauma doesn’t ...

James Sturm needs a break. At least that’s what his pal, New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, thinks. “I just want him to slow down,” Bliss said. As he is wont to do, Bliss was joking. But also kind of ...

Siblings Hazel and Fiver from "Watership Down: The Graphic Novel" by Richard Adams, adapted by James Sturm and illustrated by Joe Sutphin. The 2023 graphic novel is the latest adaptation of the 1972 ...

An illustrated ode to Richard Adams’s novel “Watership Down.” By James Sturm and Joe Sutphin James Sturm is the director of the Center for Cartoon Studies and the author of several graphic novels. Joe ...

In Watership Down (2018) Season 1, Fiver’s chilling vision drives Hazel and a band of rabbits on a perilous escape from their doomed warren. Facing predators, hunger, and internal struggles, they ...

A note from CT’s president in our annual books issue. One of the books I loved in my youth was Watership Down by Richard Adams. For reasons I could not name at the time, the peculiar tale of a band of ...

The Efrafan Owsla flee the collapsing caverns leaving only Woundwort, Vervain, Moss, and a handful of officers alive. Realizing that not even the cave-in will stop General Woundwort from trying to ...

A half-century after the book's publication, the author's daughters sought a team to render the children's classic in pictures but stay close to... A new graphic novel version of 'Watership Down' aims ...

The children's classic Watership Down began life one summer's day in the mid-1960s. Richard Adams, an Oxford-educated civil servant, was taking his two young daughters on a drive through the British ...