Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Techniques - Cartooning

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 eyesight:...

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...

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When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream audiences recognized that a comic book was capable of exploring complex aesthetic, moral, and cultural themes. Maus's creator Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) became the most famous alternative cartoonist in America.

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