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A collection of woodcut artist and printmaker George A. Walker‿s best work from the 1970s to the present day, including his wordless novels, limited edition books and portraits.

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Five Wordless Graphic Novels. Second expanded edition of the book that features five wordless novels by five great 20th century woodcut artists from Europe and North America.

Praise for the first edition: "An indispensable guide for those who make art out of the contrast between light and dark. And, it's a sheer pleasure for everyone else, thanks to its many wonderful illustrations." -- Artsforum "Walker's instruction is so clear and well organized that this handbook is perfect for the beginner." -- American Artist

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In the "Book of Hours, " award-winning wood engraver George A. Walker creates a modern-day, secular devotional that captures in narrative imagery what is too devastating for words: the individual moments of innocence and routine life that ended with the onslaught of 9/11.

With a series of 100 woodcuts, master engraver George A. Walker presents in black and white the portrait of a man whose life has played out among the grey shadows of the media industry.Walker's latest wordless novel introduces a measure of silence to one of the most outspoken and talked-about figures in modern Canadian history. The Life and Times of Conrad Black documents the eventful life of the Canadian-born media baron, from his earliest ch...

Walker's engravings in The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson pay homage to Thomson's contribution to Canadian culture through both representations of his own life and of the contemporary artistic community as a whole. The German Expressionists, who were active around the time Thomson was painting, often used wood engraving techniques in their own works. A ``wordless novel'' format captures the essence of Tom Thomson's artistic spirit and iconic ...

The delicacy and intelligence of George Walker's printmaking seems to have come to us from a bygone age. Fortunately, we have George with us now." -- Neil Gaiman A cold case from 1917, the tragic cost of the events of 9/11, and the rise and fall of a media baron. These are the themes as imagined by George Walker in his three wordless contemporary narratives -- The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, The Book of Hours and Conrad Black -- told in w...

Pierre Elliott Trudeau was one of Canada's most charismatic--and polarizing--politicians. His tenures as Prime Minister during the 1970s and 80s were marked by conflict and crisis but also by a sense of nationalism, the development of multiculturalism and Canadian pride. He is known for invoking the War Measures Act in response to FLQ terrorism during the October Crisis, for introducing the Official Languages Act to improve the position of fra...

The Mad Hatter of contemporary Canadian graphic arts, wood engraver George A. Walker considers the passage of time as it unfolds from the binding of his personal dream diary. Walker was introduced to the concept of a visual dream diary in John MacGregor's Inscape Psychology' courses at the Ontario College of Art in the 1980s. An essential part of the course requirement insisted each student keep a daily dream diary. The methodology was simple...

In The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook, master engraver George A. Walker provides a new perspective on a man whose words have captivated generations. Walker's latest wordless narrative presents a suite of 80 wood engravings commemorating the life and artistic accomplishments of Leonard Cohen, the Montreal-born poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter whose career has spanned almost six decades. Best read to music, The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songb...

Twenty-six magical images gleaned from almost two hundred wood engravings made by George A. Walker for extremely rare editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" (And What Alice Found There) published by Cheshire Cat Press in 1988 and 1998, respectively.

Printmaker George A. Walker has assembled into one volume a collection of wood engravings that he has made during his career as an artist. He says in the introduction I hadn't ever really considered myself a wood-engraver ... [but] inevitably found myself making engravings on wood for my Artists' books. So you see I surprised myself when I realised that I had made hundreds of engravings over the years.... I fell into wood engraving much in the...