Die Nilpferdjagd
A German picture-story sheet titled Die Nilpferdjagd, drawn by Emil Reinicke and printed by Meisenbach, Riffarth und Co in 1894, aimed at a general German readership as a Bildergeschichte of a hippopotamus hunt in North Africa. Its grid of small pencil-like engravings shows a sequence of scenes: hunters in boats, a hippo rising from the water, and a chase along the river bank, each panel captioned in verse beneath. A designer could take the strip-of-panels layout, the numbered caption rhythm, and the comic-narrative pacing as a model for sequential storytelling.
