Lynd ward art spiegelman biography

Some time ago, we marveled at the work of graphic novel pioneer Lynd Ward (1905-1985), whose stunning wordless woodcuts sparked a new dawn of visual storytelling.

The genre has since expanded across everything from Hollywood to serious nonfiction -- cue in these 10 masterpieces of graphic nonfiction or the recent Richard Feynman graphic biography. From the Library of America comes a fantastic celebration of Ward's legacy: Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts collects the artist's most seminal work in a treasure trove of woodcut goodness created between 1929 and 1937, incredibly costly and near-impossible to find prior to the publication of this volume.

More than mere eye candy -- which the stark, bold, intensely detailed wood engravings certainly are -- Ward's work is also a thoughtful meditation on both the nature of art and the nature of society before and during the Great Depression, exploring a number of s