Der Schildbürger ergötzliche Stücklein
A comic picture book of the Schildbürger, the foolish townsfolk of Schilda, by Anton Muttenthaler, published in 1849, likely in German-speaking Central Europe for a popular readership. The sheet grids small captioned black-and-white scenes in sequence, each with a German verse or caption below. A designer could borrow the panel-by-panel storytelling layout, the crowded comic mischief of the townspeople, and the captioned text blocks as a template for sequential graphics.
