Let's have a thread for ancient and Premodern sequential art.
Pic related is the Codex Borbonicus.
Let's have a thread for ancient and Premodern sequential art.
Pic related is the Codex Borbonicus.
The Ransom of Hector. Found in Apulia, Southern Italy. Created circa 350 BC.
From the Dongba culture of Yunan, China . 7000 years ago.
The Huichol Yarn Paintings also have narrative elements
I LOOOOVEDA THIS book. Egyptian "Book of the Dead" translates and in full color side by side you can read it like a comic.
Would anyone be interested in a storytime?
More Dongba
Yes please!
>Rope
>Testicles
What? Why?
Trying to find a digital copy to use. May have to find my old version from UNI and find a way to scan it
Interesting techniques here. Notice how they put the text in the gutters between panels.
>So that he too would experience the pain which would bring new life.
Fucked up what the Spanish did to indigenous books. Tons of information lost to humanity.
>Second panel
Same old shit, just a different day
This is Silver Age level pacing
What a cuck culture, some cultures just deserved to be conquered
>Cuck
What does that image have to do with cucking?
>premodern
>1840
user that's the late modern period.
>man chooses to endure birthing pains to simp for his wife
hence cuck, meanwhile in chad America father and his friends smoke cigars in the next room