Laurence Hyde (1914-1987) was a Canadian graphic artist, painter and film maker in the mid 20th century.  He's famous for a few reasons but primarily for his wordless novel "Southern Cross".  This's made up of 118 woodcuts about the effects of US atomic bomb testing on the inhabitants of the Polynesian Islands.  I love how he captures the waves of the ocean and explosions so convincingly.  This is hard to do on a woodcut.  Here're some prints from that novel.