Prelude to a Million Years

Lynd Ward's Prelude to a Million Years is a wordless novel in woodcuts, published in 1933 by Equinox Cooperative Press, Inc. Across its single issue, Ward tells a stark, allegorical story of artistic struggle and societal collapse through his masterful, expressionistic engravings. This pioneering work stands as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel, demonstrating the power of sequential art to convey complex narrative without a single line of text.