Stella Gibbons even visit literary squares, or love in literary triangles". Truss posits further reasons why Gibbons did not become a literary canon. Because she was a woman who wrote amusingly, she was classified as "middlebrow"; furthermore, she was published by Longmans, a non-literary publisher. Her lampooning of the literary establishment in the spoof dedication of "Cold Comfort Farm" to one "Anthony Pookworthy" did not amuse that establishment, who were further offended by the book's mockery of the writing of such canonical figures as Lawrence and Hardy—hence Virginia Woolf's reaction to the "Prix Étranger" award. Her belief in what she called "the
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