Buzz a Buzz or The Bees

A single comic from 1872, Buzz a Buzz or The Bees is a curious artifact from the early days of the medium, published by Griffith and Farran. It adapts the work of German artist Wilhelm Busch, whose satirical picture stories heavily influenced the development of the comic strip. With text likely by William Charles Cotten, the issue stands as an early, imported example of the sequential visual storytelling that would come to define the form.