George Walker (printmaker)
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George Alexander Walker is a Canadian artist and writer best known for his wood engravings and wordless novels.
Photograph by Michelle Walker
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The wordless novel is a narrative genre that uses sequences of captionless pictures to tell a story. As artists have often made such books using woodcut and other relief printing techniques, the terms
George Walker (printmaker)
…George Alexander Walker is a Canadian artist and writer best known for his wood engravings and wordless novels. Walker trained as a letterpress printer in high school and continued to study the trade in college. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in…
Wordless novels flourished in Germany in the 1920s and typically were made using woodcut or similar techniques in an Expressionist style. (Frans Masereel, 25 Images of a Man's Passion, 1918)
Expressionist film and graphics inspired early wordless novels. (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920)
Wordless novelists favoured relief printing such as in this wood engraving from Ward's Prelude to a Million Years (1933).
In He Done Her Wrong (1930), Milt Gross parodied Lynd Ward's Gods' Man (1929).