using woodcut and other relief printing techniques. The genre flourished
primarily in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in Germany. The typically
socialist work drew inspiration from medieval woodcuts and used the
awkward look of that medium to express angst and frustration at social
injustice. The first such book was the Belgian Frans Masereel's 25
Images of a Man's Passion (illustrated), published in 1918. Other
artists, such as the German Otto Nückel, followed Masereel's example.
Lynd Ward brought the genre to the United States in 1929 when he
produced Gods' Man, which inspired other American wordless novels and
was parodied in 1930 by cartoonist Milt Gross in He Done Her Wrong.
Following an early-1930s peak in production and popularity, the genre
waned in the face of competition from sound films and anti-socialist
censorship in Nazi Germany and the US. The graphic novels of cartoonists
Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman and the wordless graphic novels of Eric
Drooker and Peter Kuper were inspired by the wordless novel genre.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordless_novel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1258:
Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a
cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, ending
the rule of the Abbasid caliphate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)>
1862:
American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk
of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the
Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elizabeth_City>
1906:
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched,
representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name
came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)>
1962:
Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it
included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day
dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now
known for.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Mickey>
2008:
The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's
National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Namdaemun_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
no fear:
1. Don't worry, no worries.
2. (UK, dated) No way; absolutely not: TOAD: You should take up swimming!
— RABBIT: No fear, toad! (The Animals of Farthing Wood).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_fear>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell
alone.
--Jimmy Durante
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Durante>
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