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a sequence of sequential art

nickyskye — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:56:26 -0800

A history of picture stories from 300 AD to 1929 and commentary. The evolution of speech balloons. Photos & drawings of early cartoonists. [via]

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:11:18 -0800

thanks--some excellent stuff here

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:16:32 -0800

this Josua scroll is amazing.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:50:37 -0800

Thanks, nickyskye, this is fantastic!

By: mediareport

mediareport — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:44:07 -0800

Yeah, great stuff, nicky. It was posted here about 4 years ago when it was at bugpowder. Well worth a repost after that long.

By: carmina

carmina — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:58:31 -0800

hi nicky, this is a lovely post. Thank you. I am actually trying to find out more about Andy Bleck (or Konkykru). He has apparently some excellent drawings too.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:02:46 -0800

ah, mediareport, Andy's Early Comics Archive seemed too wonderful not to have been linked to in MetaFilter before. Thanks for being gracious about it. carmina, hard to find much info about "Andy Konky-Kru". Here's a pic of him and an excellent piece called "Konky" by Pete Ashton, about Andy's website and his work.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:36:53 -0800

a very western-centric list, no? altho, to be honest, i can't think of too many non-western examples of picture stories off the top of my head, other than the quite wonderful pictorial ramayana in the royal palace in bangkok. (cannot google it now - running fast out of internet time here in delhi...) there've gotta be some good pictorial tales of genji...

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:17:40 -0800

there are gorgeous Genji pics but i don't remember seeing captions or sentences on them--just chopmarks and stuff. Maybe some of those hanging scroll paintings with poems on them would count?

By: porpoise

porpoise — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:03:47 -0800

Huh, the evolution of speech balloons is fascinating. I wonder what the next evolution is going to be? I see a lot of webcomics that use different fonts/colours to convey different emotional content...

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:00:25 -0800

how delightful!

By: sophieblue

sophieblue — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:40:00 -0800

Thanks for the wonderful post nickyskye, and for the follow-up links. I've been working my way through some histories of comics recently and I think this is my favorite so far (probably due to the obsessive quality that Ashton notes in the "Konky" link – and like porpoise I loved the speech bands material). I would not have seen it otherwise.