the silent graphic novel

Today I’ve found the review blog from The critic, a copy writer living in Burkina Faso about the book The silent graphic novel (Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde, Firefly Books, 2007)  What has strike me is the genre, which recalls much of the early cinema (indeed silent in its form), where the contour of the selection of frames and flow of images reflects so well the style of the silent comic writer.  Indeed, this type of graphic collection, a true “socialized art scheme” says the critic, addresses verbal and visual experience from angles truly unconscious in a way, despite the overall implications of the medium used, with its reputation to persuade audience, the novel interpretation does explore realms of confrontation across symbolic forms of language (codes included). Indeed, this series devotes its attribution and discovery of the medium form and the social engagement that comes from it, as the review says:  “Taken together as a whole, these four works are indeed a graphic witness. They bear testimony both to past movements of solidarity and social justice, as well as document the development of the graphic novel. In collecting these seminal and rare works, Walker and Firefly Press have done an invaluable service exposing newer readers to the form in its infancy. In a market glutted with pituitary cases in spandex, the reintroduction of real life concerns is a necessary tonic.”