Der dumme Barthel
Der dumme Barthel is a German comic picture story from 1877, drawn by Ludwig von Nagel and André Bork and published by Braun & Schneider for a popular audience. Its page is a grid of nine small captioned scenes of a bumbling soldier's cavalry mishaps. The black-and-white line drawings, with their clear sequencing and expressive gestures, offer a designer a model for panel layouts and caption-led comic storytelling.
