MASEREEL, Frans

Born in Flemish Belgium, Masereel began as an illustrator of books written by others, but because his drawings were strong enough to stand apart from any texts, he made them in masterful sequences that suggested narratives, such as Mein Stundenbuch (subtitled variously a novel without words or a novel told in 165 pictures); thus he became the precursor of such later visual fictioneers as the Americans Lynd Ward , Milt Gross , Edward Corey , Giacomo Path (1898),...