La Ville : cent gravures sur bois

A singular, self-contained work of graphic storytelling from 1961, La Ville is a wordless novel composed of one hundred woodcut engravings by French artist Pierre Vorms. Published as a single issue, it stands as a stark, atmospheric visual journey through an unnamed city, capturing its architecture, inhabitants, and rhythms without a single line of dialogue. Vorms’s intricate, hand-carved panels echo the tradition of the woodcut novel, making this a distinctive and contemplative artifact of the medium’s expressive potential.