Chauvet Cave in Southern France. ~30,000 BCE From Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (documentary)

Egyptian Hieroglyphics ~1300 Depicts Norman events leading up to conquest of English and Battle of Hastings

Bayeux Tapestry ~1070s Depicts Norman events leading up to conquest of English and Battle of Hastings

Jieziyuan Huazhuan 芥子園畫傳 "Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden", 1679-1701 China. Artists’ instruction book.

A Harlot’s Progress. 1731 by English painter and printmaker William Hogarth.

Note on coffin: Mol Hackaway. Died September 1731. Age 23

Rodolphe Töpffer’s ‘Histoire de M. Vieux Bois’ (Trans: ‘The Story of Mr. Wooden Head’). Completed 1827, published in 1837.

‘The Adventure’s of Obadiah Oldbuck’ published as a newspaper supplement in New York in 1842

Eshinbun Nipponchi. 1874

‘The Youth's World’ Shōnen Sekai 少年世界.

1895

‘Mighty Atom’ Tetsuwan Atomu

鉄腕アト Known to us as

‘Astro Boy’ 1952.

R.F. Outcault. ‘The Yellow Kid’ from Hogan’s Alley Ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World

and later William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal

‘It’s a time clock and I hate te time How I will miss it But I really knead de dough and dats why we calls cash dough cause we kneads it all de time wich aint no new story’

New York Journal. 1898

R.F. Outcault’s Buster Brown ~1902