Lynd Ward

After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.

Lynd Ward invented the concept of a wordless novel with this evocative, text-free "woodcut" narrative. Autobiographical in nature, the novel recounts Ward's struggles with his craft and with life in the 1920s.

From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still unrivaled richness of drama, characterization, imagery,...

When a creature assembled from the bodies of dead convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist realizes he is rejected by society, he goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life but refuses to give him a companion to share it. Horrified by the monster he has created, Frankenstein is consumed by the need to hunt down and destroy his creation.

A series of woodcut illustrations relate the story of three people coping with the hardships of the Great Depression.

A biography of the patriot of the Revolution who had many trades, among them silver work, manufacture of copper, casting of bells, engraving, and dentistry.

"After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution." --