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Father of the comic strip : Rodolphe Töpffer /

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kunzle, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Great comics artists.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Töpffer the satirist: contexts for themes
  • Goethe, Töpffer, and a new kind of caricature
  • Jabot, Crépin, Vieux Bois
  • Töpffer launched, comic strip defended, literary fame, Festus
  • Politics and absurdity ; Pencil and Trictrac
  • The last years: Cryptogame, Albert, aesthetics and physiognomics
  • Töpffer the professional dilettante
  • Voyages en Zigzag: humor of the unexpected
  • The legacy
  • Appendix A. Histoire de Sébastien Brodbec
  • Appendix B. Töpffer's comic picture-novels / by Professor Fr. Vischer.