Sequential Drawing 2. -- OUAN404

The Bayeux tapestry was completed in the 1070s, and is a 70 metre long embroidered piece of fabric depicting the events leading up to the Norman invasion of Britain and the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. The tapestry is considered by many to be the first true graphic novel or comic. Read from left to right the piece depicts 50 separate scenes, including subtitles in Latin explaining the events shown in each image. It is one of the earliest European historical accounts which used images alongside text to tell the story, it is thought that this is because common people could not read or write (or speak Latin) - and the images were a way that anybody who viewed the tapestry could understand the story of William's victory.

A scene from the tapestry depicting Harold's death