The Bayeux Tapestry, the Comic Strip

A single-issue comic from OREP Editions (2019), The Bayeux Tapestry, the Comic Strip reimagines the famous medieval embroidery as a sequential art narrative. Published by a French house specializing in historical and regional works, the project distills the tapestry's epic 11th-century story—from Harold's oath to the Battle of Hastings—into a modern comic format. It offers a compact, visually faithful entry point for readers curious about how one of history's great visual documents translates into the language of panels and speech balloons.