Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy polyps ) Two of the 6

) Two of the 6 are larger and one of the 4 smaller ones has no tail

but it appears the head and arms of the young woman at the center of this postcard MAY have been printed

and then there is this great little face

the more you find

” And while of course there is much more to the story than this

Frans Masereel's "Die Idee" Very Early Graphic Novel, 1928 Copy polyps ) Two of the 6Now 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