‘I wanted to give Catholic families an alternative’: At Voyage Comics, telling the stories of saints

'In many ways, comic books are simply a continuation of the Church’s long history of creating artwork to tell a story.'

What was the world’s first comic book? Aficionados can’t seem to agree. Was it “Master Flashgold's Splendiferous Dream” in 1755? Or “The Glasgow Looking Glass” in 1820? Or perhaps the “Historie de M. Jabot” in 1833?

It all depends on how you define the term. If you mean using sequential images to tell a story, then Trajan’s Column in Rome (completed AD 1…