'Jack (and his Mom) and the Beanstalk', from 'Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies'.
David Macaulay was born in 1946 in Burton-on-Trend, England, but has lived in America for most of his life. Macaulay has written a lot of books such as 'The Way Things Work', 'Cathedral' and 'Motel of the Mysteries' and won the Caldecott Award. He contributed to Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman's 'Little Lit', namely 'Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies' (2000), where 'Jack (and his Mom) and the Beanstalk', was his first comic work. Making the page function as a graphic entity while making each panel an efficient unit of information was one of the hardest things he had ever done, though you wouldn't know it from reading his breezy and playful version of 'Jack (and his Mom) and the Beanstalk'. The sequence of pictures gives you an overall sense of the narrative, while the short bursts of language offer texture and detail.
'Jack (and his Mom) and the Beanstalk', from 'Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies'.