Wild Pilgrimage #[nn]
"Wild Pilgrimage" is a powerful, wordless narrative in woodcut by Lynd Ward, whose stark, expressive images capture a worker’s journey from urban despair to rural disillusionment and fleeting hope. The story follows a man drawn to the countryside only to confront violence and isolation, ultimately returning to the city to witness a clash between labor and authority that ends in tragedy. A striking example of early 20th-century graphic storytelling, this 1932 issue stands as a haunting meditation on alienation and resistance.
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Oppressed by the industrial city, the Protagonist dreams of the countryside. Once there, though, he witnesses a lynching. He works for a farmer, makes advances to the farmer's shocked wife, and is chased away. A second farmer, deep in the forest, takes him in. After a long time of work and learning he dreams of leading the workers in rebellion. Returning to the city he finds it largely idle and the workers desperate. When police attack peacefully gathered workers he kills one of the police, but is killed himself in turn.
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