Comic Invention

This new exhibition explores the cultural and historical background of graphic narrative and how we tell stories in pictures. Taking us from the world’s oldest comic to Donald Duck and Dr Dread, Comic Invention also reveals new material central to the history of comics. Looking at the graphic narrative in its widest sense, the exhibition showcases treasures from The Hunterian and beyond, from the ancient Greeks to Hogarth and contemporary items. Comic Invention also highlights a very important but little known work called The Glasgow Looking Glass of 1825 (pictured). Arguably the world’s oldest comic, it predates titles like Punch by sixteen years.

Suitable for
Any age


Website
www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/majorexhibitions/comicinvention/#d.en.410343

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/sc000244?id=EVENT540387