The second volume of collected woodcut graphic novels from a "brilliant and iconoclastic" author who has been compared to Frank Capra and John Steinbeck (Jonathan Lethem, New York Timesbestselling author of The Fortress of Solitude)
The images reproduced in this volume are taken from prints pulled from the original woodblocks or first-generation electrotypes. Ward's novels are presented, for the first time since the 1930s, in the format that the artist intended, one image per right-hand page, and are followed by four essays in which he discusses the technical challenges of his craft. Art Spiegelman contributes an introductory essay, "Reading Pictures," that defines Ward's towering achievement in that most demanding of graphic-story forms, the wordless novel in woodcuts.