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Six Novels in Woodcuts

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Lyn Ward / Library of America

Lynd Ward, First graphic novelist,

Long before there was Maus or Watchmen, there was Lynd Ward, the first great American graphic novelist. In 1929, Ward launched a series of six wordless epics told entirely in stark, gorgeous woodcuts, now beautifully and deservedly reprinted by the Library of America.

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