Gustave Doré

Born in Strasbourg in 1832, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré began his artistic journey at just 15, working as a caricaturist for the French paper *Le journal pour rire*. Early on, he developed a distinctive style, influenced by artists like J. J. Grandville, and quickly became a master of wood-engraving. Throughout the late 1840s and early 1850s, he explored sequential art, creating several text comics such as *Les Travaux d'Hercule* (1847) and *L'Histoire de la Sainte Ru…