Father of the Comic Strip - Rodolphe Topffer

Informationen zum Autor David Kunzle is a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of many books on popular culture and graphic arts, including History of the Comic Strip: The Nineteenth Century. Klappentext A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip Zusammenfassung Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva invented a new art form: the comic strip, or “picture story”, that is now the graphic novel. In a biographical framework, Kunzle situates the comic strips in the Genevan and European culture of the time as well as in relation to Töpffer's other work.

Product details

• Authors: David Kunzle, David/ Inge Kunzle
• Publisher: University press of mississipp
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2007
• EAN: 9781578069484
• ISBN: 978-1-57806-948-4
• No. of pages: 207
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 279 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Great Comics Artists Series; Great Comics Artists; Great Comics Artists Series; Great Comics Artists
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design