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December 9, 2007 2:09 PM   Subscribe

Histoire de M. Vieux Bois is considered the first modern comic book. Also available in GIF.
posted by sushiwiththejury (6 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
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 first comic book?
posted by grumblebee at 5:49 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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