Rodolphe Topffer: The Complete Comic Strips - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1578069467 ISBN 13 : 9781578069460

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2007

Synopsis

Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846), his virtual invention of the comic strip, or graphic novel, stands out as the most surprising, curious, and to us, after a century inundated by comic strips, by far the most significant.

This volume is the first English-language version of the Töpffer comics oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions. Comics scholar Kunzle translates the captions from the French, gives essential biography and chronology, and appends socio-political contexts for all the stories with explanation of references obscure today. He deals with questions of dating and the differences among manuscript, printed version, and the various editions. He also lists the plagiaries, translations, and adaptations in other media.

Töpffer's complete comic strip output, combined with Kunzle's annotative material and analyses, makes this volume one of the most significant works of comics history to be published and reestablishes Töpffer's seminal place in the comics canon.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Kunzle (1936-2024) was professor emeritus of art history at the University of California and author or editor of Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870; Cham: The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839-1862; Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer; Gustave Doré Twelve Comic Strips; and Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1578069467
• ISBN 13: 9781578069460
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 672
• Éditeur: Kunzle David
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