Der getäuschte Feuerwehrmann
A German comic-strip sheet from 1874 by Adolf Oberländer, published in the Fliegende Blätter series Münchener Bilderbogen, a cheap picture sheet for a general family readership. Its twelve framed panels follow a fireman who is tricked by a mischievous figure, with the sequence read left to right and top to bottom. A designer could take its tightly packed grid of small captioned scenes, its heavy black hatching and dramatic lamplit shadows, and its clear step-by-step storytelling.
