http://www.metafilter.com/tags/NovelsWithoutWords Posts tagged with 'NovelsWithoutWords' at MetaFilter. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:21:18 -0800 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:21:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/53581/Novels%2Dwithout%2Dwords%2DLynd%2DWard%2DEric%2DDrooker%2Dand%2Dvacapintas%2Dgreat%2DFrans%2DMasereel%2Dpost Graphic novels without words are the silent movies of the printed page. Now, the inestimable and erudite <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/search_posts.cfm?user_ID=10705" title="That's Mr. Best of the Web to you, buddy">vacapinta</a> first directed us to the father of the genre, one <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/19335" title="Frans Masereel - a great woodcut artist, pioneer of the wordless novel. You can see all of his 1925 Die Stadt (The City) and Landscapes and Voices (1929) at Graphic Witness (Though his Passionate Journey is one of my favorite books.) 'First published in Germany in 1925 The City is a portrait of urban Europe between the wars, told in one hundred woodcuts of exceptional force and beauty. Frans Masereel portrays parks and factories, shipyards and brothels, crowds, lovers, and lonely individuals with remarkable subtlety and nuance while exploiting the stark contrast of the woodcut medium.' posted by vacapinta at 12:37 AM PST on August 21, 2002 ">Frans Masereel</a>. &#0160;&#0160; Up to recently, the most notable of Masereel's successors was <a href="http://www.bpib.com/lyndward.htm" title="Bud Plant's Illustrated Books Biography for Lynd Ward - 'It's said that Lynd Ward decided to be an artist when, in the first grade, he realized that 'draw' was 'Ward' spelled backwards. He was born in Chicago in 1905. He studied art at Teachers College, Columbia University (the same college attended by Dorothy Lathrop) and graduated in 1926. He married May McNeer the week they graduated and immediately sailed for a year in Europe.'">Lynd Ward</a>, whose most famous work was <a href="http://www.beaverpond.com/GodsMan.html" title="Lynd Ward's first book God's Man was published in 1929 by Jonathon Cape and Smith. It was a novel without words, the story told in 139 wood engravings."><em>God's Man</em></a>, subtitled <em>A Novel in Woodcuts</em>. Here are some more <a href="http://www.keithsheridan.com/ward.html" title="Keith Sheridan Fine Prints - Lynd Ward">plates</a> from <em>God's Man</em> for sale. Yet more plates can be found, along with a bad midi, at the Texas based <a href="http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog6/ward.htm" title="But please note: Don't click on the Wonder Society link they list as hosting his works entire.. That site is long defunct and the domain name has been taken over by a mouse trapping pop up barraging claim jumper.">Woodcuts - Lynn Ward: Gods' Man</a>. And here are some <a href="http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/lynd_ward/illustrations.htm" title="Lynd Ward As Illustrator is on view in the Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery on the fifth floor of Georgetown University's Lauinger Library during the Summer 2001 semester.">illustrations</a> from Georgetwon University's Lauinger Library September 2001 exhibit <a href="http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/lynd_ward/guide.htm" title="Introduction to the Exhibition">Lvnd Ward as Illustrator</a>. Here, also, is <a href="http://www.graphicwitness.org/historic/ward01.htm" title="Click on the image to procede further">Graphic Witness: visual arts &amp; social commentary - Lynd Ward</a>. And here is his <a href="http://www.madmansdrum.com/" title="I decided to create this web site in order to share the wonderful woodblock prints of Lynd Ward with the world. There are very few examples of the 119 images found in this book on the Internet, and I highly doubt that many people will ever hold an actual copy. And, try as I might, I could not find the full story of this unique graphic novel anywhere. So, I decided to place the book, as a complete story, with every woodblock print in order (the way he intended it to be 'read'), on the Internet so that you too may 'read' this wonderful novel. (Yes, I know that that sounds utopian, but isn't that what the original Internet was all about?) So here it is folks. Lynd Ward's novel in woodcuts, Madman's Drum.">Madman's Drum</a> in its entirety. &#0160;But now we have a contemporary working in the same vein--<a href="http://drooker.com/">Eric Drooker</a>. &#0160;&#0160;<small>More inside </small> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53581 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:21:18 -0800 Comics EricDrooker eyecandy flash friday fun Graphics LyndWard NovelsWithoutWords Scratchboard Woodcuts y2karl