The novel in images (wordless book) was a book that told complete stories without text, resorting to the use on each page of an engraving and to a lesser extent a collage or an ink drawing. Arisen at the height of the silent film, they lived their era of splendor in the thirties of the last century and abounded in the social theme. Today they are considered a precedent of the contemporary graphic novel. History
The initiator of the current was the Belgian Frans Masereel with 25 Images of the passion d'un homme (1918) and Mon livre d'heures (1919), among others; (1998), and the work of the American writer Lynd Ward (Vertigo, 1937) and the German Otto Nückell (Des Schicksal, Eine Geschicte in Bildern, 1928). and Charles Turzak.Exceptionally, other techniques were used. Max Ernst used the collage in the surrealists The woman 100 heads (1929), Dream of a girl who wanted to enter the Carmel (1930) and A week of goodness or the Seven Capital elements (1934), and Milt Gros the drawing in ink in the parodic He Done Her Wrong (1930).
Still in later decades, works such as White Collar (1940) by Giacomo Patri and Southern Cross: Laurence Hyde's Novel of the South Seas in Wood Engraving (1951). Bibliography
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