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Article: GRAPHIC NOVEL: The Silent Artist, Musing.('Wordless Worlds: World War 3 Illustrated, vol. 39' and 'Diario De Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico')(Book review)
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Work Title: GRAPHIC NOVEL: The Silent Artist, Musing
Work Author(s): Paul Buhle
Graphic Novels
Byline: Paul Buhle
Nothing in the world of comic art is quite so strange as what critics have begun to call "wordless novels." The genre is far from new or unknown, however, and until a few years ago, it could have best been called one whose time had come---and gone. The mostly woodcut works of Belgian artist Frans Masereel and American artist Lynd Ward, at their most influ-ential during the 1920s and '30s, had sales in the hundreds of thousands, although it should be noted that their introductions by famous contemporary novelists surely ...