Father of the comic strip : Rodolphe Topffer / David Kunzle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunzle, David.

Series:

Great comics artists.

Great comics artists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartoonists--Switzerland.

Cartoonists.

Töpffer, Rodolphe, 1799-1846--Criticism and interpretation.

Töpffer, Rodolphe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Töpffer the Satirist: Contexts for Themes; CHAPTER 2. Goethe, Töpffer, and a New Kind of Caricature; CHAPTER 3. Jabot, Crépin, Vieux Bois; CHAPTER 4. Töpffer Launched, Comic Strip Defended, Literary Fame, Festus; CHAPTER 5. Politics and Absurdity: Pencil and Trictrac; CHAPTER 6. The Last Years: Cryptogame, Albert, Aesthetics and Physiognomics; CHAPTER 7. Töpffer the Professional Dilettante; CHAPTER 8. Voyages en Zigzag: Humor of the Unexpected; CHAPTER 9. The Legacy; Envoi; Appendix A. Histoire de Sébastien Brodbec

Appendix B. Töpffer's Comic Picture-NovelsNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94091-0

9786612940910

1-60473-998-3

OCLC:

690209738