Leçons de choses en 650 gravures

A single, monumental issue from Armand Colin, Leçons de choses en 650 gravures (1895) is a landmark of early educational comics, using 650 engravings to teach science and nature through sequential art. Its format—a dense, word-and-image encyclopedia for young readers—predates and influences the modern graphic textbook. This series matters as a pioneering example of how comics can instruct, not just entertain.