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Seven pranks by two boys, told in rhymed couplets under the pictures, ending with the pair of them ground into meal and fed to the ducks. Rudolph Dirks was asked to redraw it for an American paper and produced The Katzenjammer Kids instead.

A trolley that meets all the trains, a skipper with a beard, and a suburb of people who know each other far too well. The trolley became famous enough that real towns claimed to be the original.

A tall schemer and a short optimist, running a small swindle a day and losing on it. It ran daily rather than on Sundays, which almost nothing did in 1907, and every daily strip since has inherited the habit.

Jiggs came into money and would rather be eating corned beef with his old friends; Maggie intends them to be respectable and throws crockery about it. Drawn in a clean deco line that still looks modern beside the strips printed around it.

A provincial shopkeeper takes his wife and daughters on a day out and they end up circling the globe, still complaining about the food. The first long-running French comic family, drawn by a botanist under a pen name.

A twelfth-century handscroll about a courtier accused of burning down a palace gate. Unrolled right to left, the crowd runs, the rumour spreads and the accusation lands — a story told by moving the reader along the paper.

Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.

A cat loves a mouse, the mouse throws a brick, and the cat reads the brick as a token of love. Thirty years of the same joke, told in a shifting desert landscape that changes between panels.

Every week a boy named Nemo dreams his way into Slumberland, and every week the dream throws him out of bed on the last panel. McCay drew it as full newspaper pages, and used the whole sheet: the panels stretch, tilt and collapse along with the dream.

Rabbits, frogs and monkeys wrestling, bathing and holding a funeral, brushed onto handscrolls in the twelfth century. Japan often calls it the oldest manga: no words, a running story, read right to left.

Fifteen volumes of sketches — swordsmen, bathers, birds, ghosts, people pulling faces — printed from woodblocks. This is the book that put the word manga into circulation, a century before the form existed.

A neatly dressed boy, his talking dog Tige, and a prank every Sunday — followed by a written resolution never to do it again, which never survives the week.

Hans and Fritz torment der Captain and die Mama, get caught, and are back at it the following week. One of the first strips to use speech balloons and a recurring cast — the shape everything after it copied.

Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.

Fifteen volumes of sketches — swordsmen, bathers, birds, ghosts, people pulling faces — printed from woodblocks. This is the book that put the word manga into circulation, a century before the form existed.

A neatly dressed boy, his talking dog Tige, and a prank every Sunday — followed by a written resolution never to do it again, which never survives the week.

Rabbits, frogs and monkeys wrestling, bathing and holding a funeral, brushed onto handscrolls in the twelfth century. Japan often calls it the oldest manga: no words, a running story, read right to left.

Hans and Fritz torment der Captain and die Mama, get caught, and are back at it the following week. One of the first strips to use speech balloons and a recurring cast — the shape everything after it copied.

Every week a boy named Nemo dreams his way into Slumberland, and every week the dream throws him out of bed on the last panel. McCay drew it as full newspaper pages, and used the whole sheet: the panels stretch, tilt and collapse along with the dream.

A cat loves a mouse, the mouse throws a brick, and the cat reads the brick as a token of love. Thirty years of the same joke, told in a shifting desert landscape that changes between panels.

Hans and Fritz torment der Captain and die Mama, get caught, and are back at it the following week. One of the first strips to use speech balloons and a recurring cast — the shape everything after it copied.

Every week a boy named Nemo dreams his way into Slumberland, and every week the dream throws him out of bed on the last panel. McCay drew it as full newspaper pages, and used the whole sheet: the panels stretch, tilt and collapse along with the dream.

A neatly dressed boy, his talking dog Tige, and a prank every Sunday — followed by a written resolution never to do it again, which never survives the week.

Rabbits, frogs and monkeys wrestling, bathing and holding a funeral, brushed onto handscrolls in the twelfth century. Japan often calls it the oldest manga: no words, a running story, read right to left.

A cat loves a mouse, the mouse throws a brick, and the cat reads the brick as a token of love. Thirty years of the same joke, told in a shifting desert landscape that changes between panels.

Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.

Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.

Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.

Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot brew potions that almost never turn out the way they were planned. Released by David Revoy under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence.