The system of comics / Thierry Groensteen ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Groensteen, Thierry.

Standardized Title:

Système de la bande dessinée. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium's foremost scholars. In this book, originally published in France in 1999, Groensteen explains clearly the subtle, complex workings of the medium and its unique way of combining visual, verbal, spatial, and chronological expressions. The author explores the nineteenth-century pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer, contemporary Japanese creators, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, and modern American autobiographical comics. The System of Comics uses examples from a wide variet

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One. The Spatio-Topical System; Chapter Two. Restrained Arthrology: The Sequence; Chapter Three. General Arthrology: The Network; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-178) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94086-4

9786612940866

1-60473-693-3

OCLC:

693762033