Lost Consonants is a

comic a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...

collage series created by

Graham Rawle Graham Rawle is a UK writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly Lost Consonants series appeared in the ''Weekend Guardian'' for 15 years (1990-2005). He has produced ...

, appearing in Britain's ''Guardian'' newspaper from 1990 to 2005. The text and image word play series illustrates a sentence from which one vital letter has been removed, altering its meaning. For example: "Youths addicted to drugs" becomes "youths addicted to rugs", or instead of going days without water and becoming "thirsty", people become "thirty". The series appeared weekly in the weekend ''Guardian'' for 15 years, as well as in the ''

Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper i ...

'', Australia, for more than a year and the ''Globe and Mail'', South Africa. It is featured regularly in a number of English language magazines including ''Spotlight Verlag'' and ''BBC English'' magazine. During its lifetime, nearly eight hundred Lost Consonants appeared in ''The Guardian''. Eight Lost Consonants books have been published from the series.

External links

Graham Rawle's Website

Graham Rawle's staff page at the University of Brighton
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