Frans Masereel's "Mon Livre d'Heures" is a wordless novel told through wood engravings, depicting the daily life and struggles of an everyman. This work is considered a pioneering example of the graphic novel form, influencing subsequent artists and the development of the genre.
Sources for Frans Masereel — Mon Livre d'Heures (My Book of Hours)
Frans Masereel — Mon Livre d'Heures (My Book of Hours) in Wordless Novels
Held in the Wordless Novels chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Konrad Ferdinand Edmund von Freyhold — Tiere (Animals) (1909)
- 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)