Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe Topffer (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 Topffer 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oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions.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...
Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe Topffer (1799-1846), his virtual invention of the comic strip, or graphic ...
Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Topffer 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.
Topffer developed a graphic style suited to his poor...
Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Topffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, pol...
Encompassing 29 countries of Europe, this detailed bibliography covers the field of comic art. European academicians and journalists began the study of comic art earlier than their counterparts in other areas of the world. This volume reflects those efforts as well as the substantial growth of contemporary writings. Art Historian David Kunzle introduces the work, thus acknowledging the importance of Europe's lead in the scholarship of comic art in all its forms. This is one of four volumes dealing with various regions of the world in an attempt for the first time to present a...
Encompassing 29 countries of Europe, this detailed bibliography covers the field of comic art. European academicians and journalists began the stud...
Auf den ersten Blick mag es uberraschen, den Revolutionar Che Guevara als Heiligen und Jesus Christus, den Sohn Gottes, als Revolutionar zu sehen. David Kunzle zeigt auf, wie Che Guevara nach seinem Tod zum theomorphen Idol verklart wurde. Zahlreiche Bilder, Gedichte, Theaterstucke und Filme bezeugen diesen Prozess, der sich fleiig traditioneller Motive der christlichen Ikonographie bediente. - Um zu verdeutlichen, wie nahe sich beide tatsachlich sind, betrachtet der Autor im Gegenzug zur Verklarung Che Guevaras den historischen Jesus und deckt viele Parallelen auf.
Auf den ersten Blick mag es uberraschen, den Revolutionar Che Guevara als Heiligen und Jesus Christus, den Sohn Gottes, als Revolutionar zu sehen. ...