William Hogarth Archives

Did Scotland Invent The Comic Book?
Word balloons were not a new idea, though, as 18th-century artist and satirist William Hogarth was one of the first people to use word balloons in  1750s humour prints, and medieval religious art had previously pioneered their use. The Glasgow Looking Glass is also notable for containing serialised illustrated narratives (something that later Victorian magazines were known for, via[...]