During the 1960s, literary and graphic design communities throughout the world were astounded and delighted by the experimental typography of French designer , whose work has affinities with futurist and Dadaist typography. His designs for Eugène Ionesco’s plays combine the pictorial conventions of the comic book with the sequencing and visual flow of the cinema. The drama of La Cantatrice Chauve (The Bald Soprano) is enacted through Henry Cohen’s high-contrast photographs (Fig. 21-61/21-59). Each character is assigned a typeface for his or her speaking voice (Fig. 21-62/21-60) and is identified not by name but by a small photographic portrait.