Der Elefant ist los
A German comic book of 1878 by Adolf Oberländer, published in Munich, aimed at a general adult readership. Its pictures are a multi-panel strip of black-and-white line drawings showing an elephant running loose through a village, knocking over carts, people and market stalls in a lively, slapstick sequence. A designer might take the dense panel layout and the energetic, chaotic crowd scenes as a model for sequential storytelling and comic pacing.
