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...
