Die Fliege
Die Fliege is a German comic sheet of twelve panels by Wilhelm Busch, published in 1865 in Munich for a general readership of picture-story lovers. Its colour panels show a stout, bald man in a grey coat and a green armchair repeatedly failing to swat a housefly, drawn with loose, expressive line and flat, simple colour. A designer might take its sequential grid, clear figure silhouettes, and deadpan comic timing as a model for narrative layouts.
