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Posted: 2017-03-18 11:00:13

Almost every app and website you sign up for these days comes with huge terms and conditions — sometimes tens of thousands of words long — that no one ever bothers to read before agreeing to.

But one comic artist has decided to make iTunes’ 20,000-plus-word T&Cs easier to digest — by transforming them into a graphic novel.

Robert Sikoryak, who has worked for the New Yorker and Nickelodeon as well as writing comic literary parodies, is the author of “Terms and Conditions: A Graphic Novel,” published this month by Drawn & Quarterly.

It stars Apple’s late cofounder Steve Jobs, with the art style radically changing each page — reflecting the history of comics throughout the world.

“The motivation for this project was to play with the long form of the graphic novel, which has become so ubiquitous in the United States. And it struck me that the iTunes Terms and Conditions would make a very unlikely comic,” Sikoryak told Business Insider via email.

“It’s (in)famous for being very long, which is surely why it popped in my head. I loved the idea of using a well known text — in its entirety — that everyone has heard about, but very few people have ever actually read. That’s something that the Terms share with many classic works of literature.”

Keep reading to see inside the satirical graphic novel…

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