Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy diagrams but is also lovely just

but is also lovely just for display

on the bottom

Showing a strong Japanese influence

Both with great old creamy white paint

but how much better to pen a few poems with this

Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy diagrams but is also lovely justNow that I've spent some time with this marvelous book, and learned a little about Frans Masereel (Flemish, 18891972), I can't believe I knew nothing of him, and it, before but I'm very happy to have made the discovery! Consisting of 83 woodcut prints, Die Idee was one of the earliest graphic novels, telling the story of the birth and worldly life of an idea, personified as a woman. As Herman Hesse wrote in the introduction to this edition (in