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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2007.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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, Crepin, 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 Sebastien Brodbec
- Appendix B. Töpffer's comic picture-novels / by Professor Fr. Vischer.