The ancient Egyptian cemetery Beni Hassan contains thirty-nine tombs built primarily between the 21st to 17th centuries BCE. The fifteenth tomb, built for Baqet III, an official during the 21st century BCE, contains many paintings. ...
The Great Stupa at Amaravati is a Buddhist temple in India built between the third century BCE and 250 CE. The construction time period is so long because the stupa was added onto and revised ...
A look at the Egyptian Book of the Dead as a piece of sequential art.
Originating around 2,500 BCE, the Standard of Ur is one of the earliest examples of sequential art that we have. While there is earlier art that is definitely narrative, it is not clearly sequential. The ...
Narrative art stretches back 44,000 years. We humans like to tell stories with images. And we like animals.
A quick look at the magazine Jugend, especially its sequential art.
For the past few years, I have been volunteering at Manzanar National Historic Site with my family. We usually stay in the town of Independence, which has an incredible little museum, The Eastern California Museum. ...
As I mentioned before, Life? or Theatre? tells the story of Charlotte Salomon’s family, keeping the given names but changing the surnames. So far, I took us through the first hundred pages which cover the ...
The rise of the graphic novel is intimately, and of course tragically, tied to the Second World War. If we consider the book that broke through and captured a wider audience and showed the reading ...
I was reading a little article in Archaeology Magazine and learned that archaeologists now believe that prehistoric cave painters attempted to incorporate graphic depictions of sound into some of their works. The earliest example comes ...
