Der falsche Elefant
A German picture-story sheet titled Der falsche Elefant, published around 1894 for children and families, with a rhymed verse column and a series of comic panels. The panels show a clown in blue and yellow costume tangling with a grey elephant, a rear-end disguise gag, and a sly tug-of-war over a trick elephant; a designer could take the sequential panel layout, the bold flat colour and the slapstick staging as a model for a comic strip or storyboard.
