Word: graphically
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Though the term "graphic novel" originated with Will Eisner's "A Contract with God" in 1978, the first actual novel told in pictures appeared over 50 years earlier. A Belgian wood engraver named Frans Masereel created "Passionate Journey," subtitled "A Novel in 165 Woodcuts" in 1926. Through wordless tableaus it tells the story of a man's journeys across classes, cultures, depravations and indulgences. Politicized by the horrors of the First World War, Masereel uses the book, told in the universal language of pure images, partly as an anti-establishment, pro-democratic political parable. Now, nearly 75 years later, Masereel...
...made the mistake of reading "Blood Song" before noticing the sub-title, "A Silent Ballad." That is, I read it like a graphic novel, with a novel-reader's interest in character and story. In this manner I consumed this epic work within fifteen minutes and felt gypped. Seemingly naive and simplistic, the story tells of a young woman living peacefully with her family in what looks like Vietnam. One day soldiers arrive (conspicuously similar to American G.I.s) and destroy the village. She flees through the jungle and across the sea. She arrives at a modern city with dark, bedraggled...
Over the course of the play, the dialogue becomes even more graphic...