Some Curious Facts About Comic Books

  Comic books are much older than you might think. In fact, some experts claim that certain Egyptian, Greek, or Roman wall paintings could fall into this category since they represent illustrated sequences using chains of vignettes. Certain pre-Columbian codices do the same, so they could also be included in this classification. However, as a rule, strictly speaking, the first comic book was Velislav’s Bible. This manuscript dates from the 14th century and contains 747 illustrations representing the entire Old Testament. It was written to make it more accessible to the public since there were very few who knew how…