Pantomime

A singular, wordless comic from 1849, Pantomime is a silent, visual narrative created entirely by the English caricaturist and author Alfred Crowquill for the Harwood publishing house. As a single-issue work, it stands as a fascinating, early experiment in purely pictorial storytelling, predating the modern comic strip by decades. Crowquill's detailed, theatrical illustrations capture a pantomime performance without a single line of dialogue, making it a notable artifact in the history of sequential art.