Die gestörte und wiedergefundene Nachtruhe, oder - Der Floh
A German comic sheet by Wilhelm Busch, published in Munich in 1864, titled Die gestörte und wiedergefundene Nachtruhe, oder Der Floh, a satirical picture story for adult readers of humorous periodicals. Its sequence of small framed panels shows a man in a nightshirt pursuing a flea through a bedroom, with bed, nightcap and chair repeated in every frame. A designer could take the clear panel grid, the compact sequential storytelling and the bold hatched shading as a model for cartoon strip layouts.
