oldest comic is from Glasgow...

[Proudhuff]

No not Butt'man its this:

http://theconversation.com/inside-the-pages-of-the-oldest-comic-in-the-world-56225?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202016%20-%204512&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2016%202016%20-%204512+CID_7e857359e06f8c703b1984311d1ea9f1&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Inside%20the%20pages%20of%20the%20oldest%20comic%20in%20the%20world

[Satanist]

Yeah think I'm gonna go to the exhibition at some point. I hear it contains a proto future shock written by a young Stan Lee !

[I, Cosh]

Q: Here's a good pub quiz question: what was the world's first comic?

The Bayeux Tapestry?

[Satanist]

Q: Here's a good pub quiz question: what was the world's first comic?

The Bayeux Tapestry?

Do you know where I can find a suitable comic bag storing for that?

[Fungus]

No wonder the magazine didn't last the pace - another fortnightly.

[TordelBack]

Q: Here's a good pub quiz question: what was the world's first comic?

The Bayeux Tapestry?

I'll see your 1066 and raise you 30,000.  Chauvet, Altamira, Pech Merle, Lascaux - all have panels that could* be interpreted as elements of a visual narrative.  Some might even be a Pat Mills team-introduction splash page, although Pat maintains he was never paid any royalties and Cave Management was only interested in appealing to the ever-shrinking Neanderthal demographic.



*Could.

[Hawkmumbler]

Can't wait to see Hibernia pick this up!

[Dash Decent]

Q: Here's a good pub quiz question: what was the world's first comic?

The Bayeux Tapestry?

I'm sure the "Spitting Image Komic book" had the Bayeux Tapestry in it as "Commando" volume 1!

[ThryllSeekyr]

What Egyptian wall art & those cave paintings.

[Satanist]

What Egyptian wall art & those cave paintings.

Those are less comic and more home décor.

[I, Cosh]

I'll see your 1066 and raise you 30,000.  Chauvet, Altamira, Pech Merle, Lascaux - all have panels that could* be interpreted as elements of a visual narrative.  Some might even be a Pat Mills team-introduction splash page, although Pat maintains he was never paid any royalties and Cave Management was only interested in appealing to the ever-shrinking Neanderthal demographic.

I'll confess to having stolen my line from Bryan Talbot but the Bayeux is inarguably sequential narrative. Not convinced it was necessarily the first example of such rather than just the most famous of course.

[M.I.K.]

The Penguin Book of Comics (1967) mentions pretty much all of this stuff in the first chapter.

[The Legendary Shark]

What about the constellations? A kind of D.I.Y. dot-to-dot selection of celestial images relating stories of gods, monsters and incest, predating the invention of paper, pencils and 2000AD by several millions of years?

[Proudhuff]

Q: Here's a good pub quiz question: what was the world's first comic?

The Bayeux Tapestry?

No speech bubbles!

[Proudhuff]

BBc take on it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35831797