Stella Gibbons Society of Literature in 1950. Her style has been praised by critics for its charm, barbed humour and descriptive skill, and has led to comparison with Jane Austen. The impact of "Cold Comfort Farm" dominated her career, and she grew to resent her identification with the book to the exclusion of the rest of her output. Widely regarded as a one-work novelist, she and her works have not been accepted into the canon of English literature—partly, other writers have suggested, because of her detachment from the literary world and her tendency to mock it. The Gibbons family originated in Ireland.
Dave Gibbons "Doctor Who Storybook 2007" (released Christmas 2006) features a story called "Untitled" which includes the name "Gibbons" in a list of great artists of Earth history. Gibbons was one of the British comic talents identified by Len Wein in 1982 for American publisher DC Comics: he was hired primarily to draw "Green Lantern Corps" backup stories within the pages of "Green Lantern". Gibbons' first DC work was on the Green Lantern Corps story in "Green Lantern" No. 161 (February 1983), with writer Todd Klein, as well as the concurrently released "Creeper" two-part backup story in "The Flash" #318–319. Gibbons drew