only, from Prelude to a Million Years (1933), to Vertigo
(1937), are composed exclusively of images taken
from prints, ���pulled from the original woodblocks or
first generation electrotypes.��� Separately and briefly, in
a short text, Ward extols the virtues of his illustration
only novels. Cartoonist and illustrator Art Spiegelman���s
introductory essay, ���Reading Pictures: A Few Thousand
Words on Six Books Without Any��� includes this homage:
���Ward���s skill at miming expression and body language
was impressive, but it was Ward���s audacity and
confidence in wrestling with a new narrative language
that won my serious admiration as a young cartoonist.���
Leafing through Ward���s work as I have now done
several times is to experience remarkable works of art
transcending the categories of art and literature. The
books listed below form a worthy library.
Taken as a whole, the Library of America publishes
books created by a society of exceptional intuition
pursuing a plan that extols the virtues of reason, inquiry,
engineering and humanism: substantial godly gifts.
Library of America is a guardian of intangible, inestimable
values, of which the books below, chosen by this author,
represent but a few:
James Agee (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A
Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction)
The American Revolution
American Sermons
HYLAND
