Lynd Ward's "God's Man" is a wordless novel told through woodcut illustrations, depicting a young artist's struggles with temptation and societal corruption. It is considered the first American wordless novel and significantly influenced the graphic novel format.
Sources for Lynd Ward — God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
Lynd Ward — God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts 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)
- Milt Gross — He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It, No Music Too (1930)