Grimmwelt, a museum dedicated to the Brothers Grimm in Kassel, Germany, is hosting a special exhibition on animals in comics. The chronologically organised exhibition starts with 19th-century Bilderbogen, German illustrated broadsheets that can be regarded as proto-comics. Then we move on to comics proper, and as this is a show curated by Alexander Braun, we […]
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