This is the “Sort Of” list

David Beronä, in the Author’s Note at the front of his book, Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels, listed some publications as “Anomalies”.

He didn’t view the anomalies as wordless stories (BTW – I didn’t agree with all of his exclusions and on the other hand I have added some that he omitted).

Anomalies: not really wordless stories??

Some of the works listed here as Anomalies are not “wordless” while others may be wordless but they aren’t “stories” — all problematic, but perhaps of interest, eg

  • Wordless biographies and religious works can be well known to certain viewers BUT
    • if a viewer doesn’t already know the story then they can’t figure the story out from the images alone,
    • the images don’t tell a story – the wordless images only illustrate highlights in the well-known story.
  • Some wordless publications have images around a common theme but no story arc,
    • The images could be scrambled and the result would work just as well because the order of the images is irrelevant eg like views of a city – the order in seeing a building versus a bridge first is usually not important,
    • NOTE: the Danse Macabre/Dance of Death cycles come to mind but will be left to a later date as they are so extensive.

Inclusion here, on the Anomalies page, versus on the Books page, is sometimes arbitrary on my part.

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  • an artist or a book has been overlooked, or
  • some of the information is inaccurate/incomplete, or
  • you have photos that would improve this site, then

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