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Father of the Comic Strip
David Kunzle
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Description for Father of the Comic Strip
Paperback. Rodolphe Topffer (1799-1846) invented a wholly new art form - the comic strip, or "picture story." This work examines how Topffer developed his unique graphic style - the "doodle" - due to his poor eyesight, as well as looking at how his ironic, satirical, and sometimes surreal storylines became an instant success all over Europe. Series: Great Comics Artists Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 115|115 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB; AKLC; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 748.
Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman, and writer of fiction, travel tales, and social criticism, invented a new art form: the comic strip, or ""picture story,"" that is now the graphic novel. At first he resisted publishing what he called his ""little follies."" When he did, they became instantly popular, plagiarized, and imitated throughout Europe and the United States. Töpffer developed a graphic style suited to his poor eyesight: the doodle, which he systematized and also theorized. The drawings, with their ""modernist"" ... Read more
Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman, and writer of fiction, travel tales, and social criticism, invented a new art form: the comic strip, or ""picture story,"" that is now the graphic novel. At first he resisted publishing what he called his ""little follies."" When he did, they became instantly popular, plagiarized, and imitated throughout Europe and the United States. Töpffer developed a graphic style suited to his poor eyesight: the doodle, which he systematized and also theorized. The drawings, with their ""modernist"" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Great Comics Artists Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781578069484
SKU
V9781578069484
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About David Kunzle
David Kunzle is a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of many books on popular culture and graphic arts, including History of the Comic Strip: The Nineteenth Century.
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