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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...
...mind of a prepubescent boy can be a confused and chaotic place. Caught between childhood and adolescence, he's flooded by new impulses, teased by an itch he can't quite scratch. So wordless lust is confined in wordless thoughts that resound in his tormented head. The 12-year-old narrator of Ed Lin's edgy debut novel Waylaid is the only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit...
...strange penile animals. "Splish Splosh" are the only sounds in the cutely-drawn piece. H.G. Feekes tells an apparently true story about not having sex with the emaciated, bruised woman who stays in room "21." Even the most explicit of the pieces, Rick Altergott's "Mile High Club," a wordless four-pager depicting a callisthenic tryst in an airplane bathroom, leaves a scent of comedy behind...
...Francisco's bohemian neighborhoods offering instruction in zazen. Unlike Rinzai Zen, which uses intellectual methods like koans to free the mind from itself, Soto Zen has few features that are susceptible to coffeehouse dilettantism. Zazen, the Soto school's central practice, is a unique method of wordless, thoughtless "just sitting," in which the mind seeks to become as empty as a puddle reflecting a cloudless sky. It is demanding, frustrating and not for the easily bored. It turned out to be just what many of the more energetic and sincere young people on the hunt for answers in post-Beat...
Wurtzel is still moving in, so the apartment carries that quality of frenzied transition, laden with piles of books and records. Wurtzel offers to show me a draft for the trailer of Prozac Nation. It blinks on, dreamy and wordless, drifting on the sound of Lou Reed singing “Perfect...