Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy polyps or perfect for the person

or perfect for the person who wants to rule the world

the more you find

and then there is this great little face

Really quite a beautiful object

Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy polyps or perfect for the personNow 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