Prehistory of Comics Part 4: The Bayeux Tapestry
by B. Short
battle of hastings, bayeux tapestry, edward the confessor, harold godwinson, Hey Cartoonists, Syndicated
October 18, 2017
The Splash Page A 230-foot-long (over that, really) wool-on-linen artifact commemorating the 11th-century Battle of Hastings brings our tour of proto-comics into the second millennium. Past the Page Turn When Edward the Confessor died in 1066, the English crown was claimed by his brother, Harold Godwinson, the most powerful of the English lords at the […]