Der Bauer und das Kalb
A German picture-story sheet from 1862 by Wilhelm Busch, titled Der Bauer und das Kalb, published as number 142 in the Münchener Bilderbogen series for a general popular readership. Twelve hand-coloured panels show a farmer in a blue coat and hat wrestling, tricking, and being dragged by a stubborn calf across farm settings. A designer could take its clear sequential panel layout, bold flat colour, and comic gestures of exasperation for storyboard or strip-style work.
