Early cave paintings are most likely to be one of the first forms of sequential art. The paintings job is to tell a story to the viewer about the way in which they live, in this painting, the scenes change and are juxtaposed which means that they are in deliberate sequence, and are read in a swift motion. E.g it would show the hunt, the chase, and the kill.
The paintings in the ancient egyptian tombs also recorded events using sequential art. This painting is from the tomb ' the Scribe of Menna ' 14BC. At first glance it seems like its just one big image of roughly fifty Egyptians, but it is in fact a short story of four egyptians and their life of harvesting, the scenes show working, surveying and tax collecting. This painting is read from bottom left to right.
The Beyauex Tapestry also shows sequential art, recording the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066. It has been printed on a big long wall with different pictures all mingled in. There are not speech bubbles or anything, but does show narrative throughout.
William Hogarth's Marriage à-la-mode is a painting from between the years 1743 and 1745. He created narratives that told a story and are designed to be shown side by side. This painting is one of six individual paintings showing the life of the upper class in the 18th century.
