Album Comique
Album Comique is a satirical lithograph album by Honoré Daumier, published in Paris in 1850 for a general audience of readers of caricature. Its pages are numbered Les Philanthropes du Jour series, with single-column captioned scenes of middle-class men in frock coats and top hats. The pictures show crisp black-and-white line work with dense hatching, and a designer might draw on their clear staging, expressive faces and gestures, and economical interior settings.
