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Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips

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Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe Topffer , 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version of the Topffer comics oeuvre and includes all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions.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.

Topffer'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 Topffer's seminal place in the comics canon.

Language: English

Pages: 650

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

Release: April 02, 2007

ISBN: 1578069467

ISBN 13: 9781578069460

Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips

4/5 ( ratings)

Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe Topffer , 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version of the Topffer comics oeuvre and includes all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions.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.

Topffer'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 Topffer's seminal place in the comics canon.

Language: English

Pages: 650

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

Release: April 02, 2007

ISBN: 1578069467

ISBN 13: 9781578069460

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