Zum Zirkus
A German comic-strip sheet from 1869, titled Zum Zirkus and credited to Tots and Nikolaus Knilling, published as number 511 of the Münchener Bilderbogen series for a general popular audience. Its eight small panels in black-and-white wood engraving show a circus crowd: spectators packed onto tiered benches, a brawl breaking out, and a collapsing stand. A designer could take the dense crowd arrangements and the sequence of small framed scenes as a model for layout and comic pacing.
