Le Buffon choisi

A singular, oversized album from the French publisher Garnier Frères, Le Buffon choisi (1924) adapts the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's celebrated 18th-century encyclopedia into a lavish visual showcase. This single issue stands as a unique artifact of the early 20th-century European comic landscape, blending scientific illustration with sequential art to present Buffon's observations on the animal kingdom. While it remains a one-shot rather than an ongoing series, its enduring presence in print since 1924 underscores its value as a beautifully rendered, historically significant work of educational comics.