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...
Lady Masereel: Marta Chudolinska’s Wordless Novel ‘Back + Forth’
Noted illustrator, wood engraver, printer and book designer George A.Walker encourages his students at the Ontario College of Art & Design to "embrace 19th century linocut printmaking techniques to create extended visual narratives."One of the fruits of his labor is this stunning book by Marta Chudolinska. Chudolinska, who immigrated to Canada from Poland in 1991, cites Frans Masereel, one of the titans of the wordless novel, as her inspiration for the book. "Masereel's style is vivacious, focused more on expression and energy than on completely accurate representation" says Chudolinska. His "characters are still alive on the page a hundred years...