Der undankbare Sultan
A Munich comic picture-story sheet, 'Der undankbare Sultan', drawn by Adolf Oberländer and published in 1877 for the Münchener Bilderbogen series. It is a single page of small framed panels in black and white, with German verse captions set beneath each scene. The panels show a turbaned sultan and his courtiers in exaggerated, cartoonish poses, with the sequence reading row by row. A designer could take its caricature style, compact panel grid and bold line work as models for narrative cartoon layouts.
