Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy diagrams And what a beautifully drawn

And what a beautifully drawn tangle of stretching limbs and grabbing hands

Both with great old creamy white paint

Showing a strong Japanese influence

but how much better to pen a few poems with this

Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy diagrams And what a beautifully drawnNow 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