Stories without words: A Bibliography with Annotations

This site presents an overview of comics, cartoons and other picture stories without the use of a spoken language.

These stories are therefore readable by every person on the planet, despite his or her native laguage.

For many titles, the title page and or one or more pages are added.

Just click on the picture for a larger picture and click on Page to see a sample page.

All art: (c) the artists.

Credits



Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Anthologies: Wordless Comics in Anthologies

Marvel's 'Nuff Said (December 2001 silent comic books)

Newspaper Comic Strips (one-time and serialized strips in newspaper and magazines)

Woodcut Novels (woodcuts, wood engravings and linocuts)

Children's Books

Cartoons (one panel comics)

Mini Comics (usually self-published and distributed)

Bibliography of secondary sources



Paul van Dijken, 17-Mar-2013



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