Narrative art

Throughout history people have told stories with pictures. Long ago, people drew and painted stories on the walls of caves and tombs. The Romans carved stories into stone, the Ancient Greek painted pictures on pots and in the Middle Ages, women used needles and thread to create tapestries. The repeated and orderly overlapped shapes create a series of connected pictures, or frames. This method of linking scenes together led to a popular ways of telling stories in the 20th century, the newspaper,... full article at wikipedia