Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy polyps Pretty useful these days for

Pretty useful these days for directing socially distanced traffic safely through public or private space

Really quite a beautiful object

but have not seen another combining women and dogs

sporting cheerful bows in her hair

the more you find

Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy polyps Pretty useful these days forNow 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