Very nice links, but it might be more accurate to consider Töpffer's work "among the first". A Rake's Progress, released 95 years earlier, is also considered a hallmark of sequential art - and that doesn't include pamphlets from the 1600s which borrowed from the graphic layouts of illuminated texts. posted by Smart Dalek at 2:52 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]
Sorry, but sequential art expressing a narrative is as old as human history itself.
http://www.comic-art.com/history/history0.htm posted by GavinR at 3:52 PM on December 9, 2007
This is great. I love how the rival fences left handed. posted by niccolo at 4:38 PM on December 9, 2007
The OP said "the first modern comic book". So the other examples given in the comments don't necessarily contradict this. posted by litlnemo at 6:15 PM on December 9, 2007
And there is a point to considering Töpffer's work more of a "modern comic book" than Hogarth's -- the format is certainly more comic-like. posted by litlnemo at 6:20 PM on December 9, 2007
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