What is the Scholarly Banana?
The Scholarly Banana is a claymation-style graphic novel series for high-brow weirdos and dark-humored humans that spoofs old, creepy fairy tales and tricks you into learning cool stuff about them. WARNING: While this series probably won’t traumatize younger readers, the Scholarly parts will likely go over their heads. I don’t sugar-coat tales or dumb-down history. Sometimes these stories are gnarly. Sometimes the backstory is nuts . And sometimes we discuss phayllic symbols. You have been warned.
THE scholarly banana human
Karly West is an author and artist from Cleveland, Ohio, who loves old fairy tales and over-analyzing stuff. Inspired by the dreamy look of stop motion animation, she creates The Scholarly Banana's illustrations with handmade figurines and photography.