Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578069467 ISBN 13: 9781578069460

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2007

Synopsis

Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846), his virtual invention of the comic strip, or graphic novel, stands out as the most surprising, curious, and to us, after a century inundated by comic strips, by far the most significant.

This volume is the first English-language version of the Töpffer comics oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions. Comics scholar Kunzle translates the captions from the French, gives essential biography and chronology, and appends socio-political contexts for all the stories with explanation of references obscure today. He deals with questions of dating and the differences among manuscript, printed version, and the various editions. He also lists the plagiaries, translations, and adaptations in other media.

Töpffer's complete comic strip output, combined with Kunzle's annotative material and analyses, makes this volume one of the most significant works of comics history to be published and reestablishes Töpffer's seminal place in the comics canon.

About this title

Synopsis

Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Rodolphe Topffer (1799-1846), his invention of the comic strip stands out as the most surprising, curious, and - after 100 years of being inundated by comic strips - by far the most significant. This is the first English-language collection of Topffer's oeuvre - which includes all eight of his full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of unfinished stories and manuscript segments omitted in the original printed versions. Noted comics scholar David Kunzle translates the captions, provides a detailed biography and chronology, as well as dealing with the questions of dating and the differences between various editions of his work.

About the Author

David Kunzle is author of From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art, 1550-1670 and Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Vietnam, and Cuba, 1965-1975.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1578069467
• ISBN 13: 9781578069460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Kunzle David