Flood: A Novel in Pictures by Eric Drooker

"A complex, dream-charged vision of alienation in the wet, mean streets of New York City, where primal, natural urges are suppressed in the lonely isolation of crowds. It's a picture of a soulless civilization headed toward the apocalypse. It's a poetic and lyrical novel--told virtually without words . . . Mr. Drooker has discovered the magic of pulling light and life out of an inky sea of darkness." --Art Spiegelman, The New York Times Book Review

Destiny, a novel in pictures by Otto Nuckles

Nückel's wordless graphic novel tells its socially charged story through 188 stark, arresting images. Open to endless interpretations, the tragic, often violent, story of a young girl unfolds through 17 chapters: Childhood, The Father, Service, Love, Vengeance, The Seducer, and others.

Peter kouper on Kafka

Here are two of artist Peter Kuper's graphic novels that illustrate some of the works of Franz Kafka (renowned Czech author ). The fist one give it up is a collection of illustrated short stories and the second one an illustrated version of Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I think its his use of positive/ negative space and light that make these illustrations so striking.

Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde

Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues of their times as well as the broader issues that are still relevant today. Its includes the first reprint of his classic work, The Passion of a Man, since its 1918 publication in Munich. American Lynd Ward (), author of the provocative Wild Pilgrimage, is considered among the most important of wordless novelists. Giacomo Patri (1898-1978) was born in Italy and lived in the United States. His White Collar featured an introduction by Rockwell Kent and was used a promotional piece by the labor movement. Southern Cross by Canadian Laurence Hyde (1914-87) was controversial for its criticism of U.S. H-bomb testing in the South Pacific. An introduction by George A. Walker places each wordless novel in its context and examines the influence of these works on contemporary culture, including film, comic books and contemporary graphic novels.

Sshhh! by Jason

Jason's first full-length work is an intriguing suite of silent short stories starring one of his trademark bird characters that ends up chronicling a life well lived.

THE MISSING

 Andrew O’Hagan’s first book, The Missing, was a non-fiction work about absence – people who vanish without trace, people who die and are not mourned, people who lose their place in history because their lives are too insignificant to be recorded.
In order to turn this journalistic enterprise into a play for the National Theatre of Scotland, the director John Tiffany and O’Hagan, as adaptor of his own work, have put the reporter centre-stage, in the gauchely questing shape of Joe McFadden, who barges around asking questions, attempting to put the missing on the map.

Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts

Frans Masereel was one of the greatest woodcut artists of the 20th century. This graphic novel is considered his masterpiece. A novel in pictures, we follow our hero from the first bustling frame to the last haunting image and discover a spirit in quest, existing in a world of good and evil, love and heartbreak. Includes a wonderful introduction by Thomas Mann.