The wordless novel uses captionless pictures to tell a story, most often using w

oodcut and other relief printing techniques. The genre flourished primarily in t
he 1920s and 1930s, especially in Germany. The typically socialist work drew ins
piration from medieval woodcuts and used the awkward look of that medium to expr
ess angst and frustration at social injustice. The first such book was the Belgi
an Frans Masereel's 25 Images of a Man's Passion (illustrated), published in 191
8. Other artists, such as the German Otto Nckel, followed Masereel's example. Lyn
d Ward brought the genre to the United States in 1929 when he produced Gods' Man
, which inspired other American wordless novels and was parodied in 1930 by cart
oonist Milt Gross in He Done Her Wrong. Following an early-1930s peak in product
ion and popularity, the genre waned in the face of competition from sound films
and anti-socialist censorship in Nazi Germany and the US. The graphic novels of
cartoonists Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman and the wordless graphic novels of Er
ic Drooker and Peter Kuper were inspired by the wordless novel genre. (Full arti
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