Der böse Maler
A nineteenth-century German picture-story sheet by Lothar Meggendorfer, printed in 1882 for children as a sequence of small black-and-white comic panels. The twelve-panel grid follows a boy who paints mischief across a house and street, with short rhyming captions beneath each scene. A designer could borrow its tight panel sequencing, the clear line-only figure drawing, and the way a narrative runs left to right and top to bottom.
