Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Gods' Man is a wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985) first published in 1929. In 139 captionless woodblock prints it tells the Faustian story of an artist who signs away his soul for a magic paintbrush. Gods' Man was the first American wordless novel, and is seen as a precursor of, and influence on, the development of the graphic novel.Ward first read a wordless novel, Frans Masereel's The Sun (1919), while studying art in Germany in 1926.. }
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- Gods'_Man comment "Gods' Man is a wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985) first published in 1929. In 139 captionless woodblock prints it tells the Faustian story of an artist who signs away his soul for a magic paintbrush. Gods' Man was the first American wordless novel, and is seen as a precursor of, and influence on, the development of the graphic novel.Ward first read a wordless novel, Frans Masereel's The Sun (1919), while studying art in Germany in 1926.".