Comments on: Stephen Rothwell http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/01/20/stephen-rothwell/ Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/01/20/stephen-rothwell/#comment-290848 Charley Parker Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:39:16 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/01/20/stephen-rothwell/#comment-290848 Good to know. I have a copy of Masareel's "The Sun", but I never checked the publication date. Thanks, Dan. Good to know. I have a copy of Masareel’s “The Sun”, but I never checked the publication date. Thanks, Dan.

]]> By: Dan van Benthuysen http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/01/20/stephen-rothwell/#comment-290819 Dan van Benthuysen Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:06:04 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/01/20/stephen-rothwell/#comment-290819 Rothwell's work is wonderfully evocative. The surrealist quality and legacy of Max Ernst and his collages are fascinating as well. A minor historical addendum: Frans Masareel, a Belgian, is usually credited with the first modern graphic novel, "Passionate Journey: A Novel in 165 Woodcuts" first published in 1926. And by the time Max Ernst published "Une Semaine" the American Lynd Ward had already published 4 graphic "novels without words" starting with "God's Man" in 1929. Masareel's and Ward's work, however, were not collage but wood engraving. Rothwell’s work is wonderfully evocative. The surrealist quality and legacy of Max Ernst and his collages are fascinating as well.

A minor historical addendum: Frans Masareel, a Belgian, is usually credited with the first modern graphic novel, “Passionate Journey: A Novel in 165 Woodcuts” first published in 1926. And by the time Max Ernst published “Une Semaine” the American Lynd Ward had already published 4 graphic “novels without words” starting with “God’s Man” in 1929. Masareel’s and Ward’s work, however, were not collage but wood engraving.

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