Chauvet Cave in Southern France. ~30,000 BCE From Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (documentary)

A Harlot’s Progress. 1731 by English painter and printmaker William Hogarth.

Note on coffin: Mol Hackaway. Died September 1731. Age 23

‘The Adventure’s of Obadiah Oldbuck’ published as a newspaper supplement in New York in 1842

New York Journal. 1898

R.F. Outcault. The Yellow Kid from ‘Hogan’s Alley’ Ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World

and later William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal

‘It’s a time clock and I hate te time How I will miss it But I really knead de dough and dats why we calls cash dough cause we kneads it all de time wich aint no new story’

Winsor McCay Early 1900s

‘Mighty Atom’ Tetsuwan Atomu

 鉄腕アト  Known to us as ‘Astro Boy’

First published 1952 Written by Osamu Tezuka Translated in to English by

Frederik L Schodt

Peanuts by Charles Schulz

Robert Crumb

Art Spiegelman

Will Eisner A Contract with God 1978

Marjane Satrapi Persepolis 2000

Lynda Barry, One Hundred Demons, 2002

Ariel Schrag The High School Chronicles of Ariel Schrag: Vol 3, Potential 2008

David Mazzucchelli Asterio Polyp 2009

Craig Thompson Habibi 2011

Anders Nilson Big Questions 2011

Alison Bechdel Are You My Mother? 2012

Roz Chast Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 2014

Ellen Forney Marbles 2012

Chris Ware, Building Stories, 2012

Lucy Knisely Age of License 2014

XKCD, webcomic Randall Munroe

Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh

Life in Hell, 1987 Matt Groening

‘Soba’ by Joe Sacco, 1998

‘This One Summer’ Mirko and Jillian Tamaki 2014

‘Stitches’ David Small 2009

‘Letting It Go’ Miriam Katin 2013