William Hogarth
'The Harlot's Progress (1730)
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Not a comic, but influencial in the history of the medium.
I'll add his other 'progresses' and sequential series from the same source at a later date. This is from a 19th century reprint version, not his own engravings. But his most authentic 'artistic' version are the paintings (sadly lost for the Harlot), and in a way this second hand (or third hand, for the series which Hogarth let others engrave), are very much in keeping with the reproduceability of popular graphics. |