Sequential Drawing 1. -- OUAN404

Maybe the earliest form of sequential drawing that humans engaged in are cave paintings. The stick figures of people and animals in places like the caves at Lascaux show short narratives of hunts and what are thought to be religious or spiritual practices. The images show their characters hunting from start to finish and some, like the paintings in the Magura caves in Bulgaria show detailed narratives. these drawings are surprisingly similar to modern comic books - the obvious differences being the lack of speech bubbles or other descriptive text, and the fact that images aren't seperated into different frames or cells. Still it is interesting to see that even very early humans had the capacity to understand images in a chronological sense, and the ability to follow a timeline through the drawings.

Drawings in the Magura cave depicting people and animals