Der ungenügsame Fritz
A German satirical picture story by Adolf Oberländer, published in 1877, with subjects of a boy, toys, desire and excess, drawn as a single comic scene. The picture shows a crowded, chaotic action: a horse-drawn toy cart tips over while a bearded figure, a horned devil-like creature and small soldiers swarm around a fallen boy, with wild figures flying in from the upper right. A designer might take the dense, energetic crowding of figures and the cartoon exaggeration of gesture and motion as a model for busy comic composition.
