Tag: Lynd Ward

Singing about "Gods’ Man"

Original edition of God's Man, 1929 The music kind of started pouring out for this when I was looking at the “God’s Man” book- Jim JamesJim James is best known as the frontman for the very successful band My Morning Jacket. In 2008 while performing at the University of Iowa James fell off the stage and got banged up pretty bad. In the months following, while recuperating, James was given a copy of Lynd Ward's seminal wordless novel Gods' Man which as James says "really struck a chord."How much of an impression did the book have? Well, his latest album and first solo release, “Regions of...

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The Library of America Goes Wordless: The Novels of Lynd Ward

In what just might be one of the publishing surprises and hi-spots of 2010, The Library of America will release a 2 volume boxed set featuring the six woodcut novels of Lynd Ward.God's Man, Ward's first book published on the eve of the stock market collapse of 1929, was the first wordless book-length novel to be published in the United States. By the end of 1937 Ward would publish five more novels in woodcuts: Madman's Drum (1930) Wild Pilgrimage (1932) Prelude to a Million Years (1933) Song Without Words (1936)Vertigo (1937)If one is looking for the origins of the graphic novel in the United...

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