An artist releases an Idea into the world, where authorities try to clothe, suppress, commercialize, and destroy her. Masereel turns the life of a thought into a political visual allegory, expanding the chamber's account of what sequential images can personify.
Sources for Frans Masereel — Idée: Sa naissance, sa vie, sa mort
Frans Masereel — Idée: Sa naissance, sa vie, sa mort in Wordless Novels
Held in the Wordless Novels chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Konrad Ferdinand Edmund von Freyhold — Tiere (Animals) (1909)
- Frans Masereel — Mon Livre d'Heures (My Book of Hours) (1919)
- Hermann-Paul — La Danse Macabre: Vingt Gravures sur Bois (1919)
- Frans Masereel — La Ciudad (Die Stadt / The City) (1925)
- Otto Nückel — Destiny: A Novel in Pictures (Schicksal: Eine Geschichte in Bildern) (1926)
- Lynd Ward — God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (1929)
- Milt Gross — He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It, No Music Too (1930)
- Frans Masereel — 25 Images of a Man's Passion (1918)
- Frans Masereel — Die Sonne (The Sun) (1919)
- Lynd Ward — Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts (1930)