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Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips
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Description for Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips
Hardcover. Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Rodolphe Topffer (1799-1846), his invention of the comic strip stands out as the most surprising. This is a collection of Topffer's oeuvre - which includes all eight of his full-length stories, and fragments of unfinished stories and manuscript segments. Editor(s): Kunzle, David. Translator(s): Kunzie, David. Num Pages: 672 pages, 37376 line illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB; AKLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 51. Weight in Grams: 2363.
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oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions.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 ... Read more
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oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781578069460
SKU
V9781578069460
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Ref
99-1
About
David Kunzle is author of From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art, 1550-1670 and Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Vietnam, and Cuba, 1965-1975.
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