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Forging a New Medium: The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Charles Dierick and Pascal Lefèvre. Brussels: VUB University Press, 1998. 214 pp.


Hardcover: ISBN-10: 9054872063; ISBN-13: 978-9054872061

Library of Congress:
Dewey Class No.: 741.5/09 21
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Acknowledgments ... 7
  1. Introduction / Pascal Lefèvre and Charles Dierick ... 9
  2. A Timeline, 1800-1914
  3. From "Mannekensblad" to Comic Strips / Patricia Vansummeren ... 37
  4. The Archaeology of the Dutch Comic Strip / Nop Maas ... 49
  5. The Cartoonist's Progress: The Inventors of the Comics in Great Britain / Paul Gravett ... 79
  6. Töpffer, the Originator of the Modern Comic Strip / Thierry Groensteen... 105
  7. Comic Strips in the Work of Wilhelm Busch / Hans Ries ... 115
  8. Notes on the Birth of the Comics in Spain, 1873-1900 / Antonio Martin ... 129
  9. Precursors in American Weeklies to the American Newspaper Comic Strip: A Long Gestation and a Transoceanic Cross-Breeding / David Kunzle ... 157

  10. Abstracts in French and Dutch ... 187
    Contributors ... 197
    Index ... 203

    [Note: A Spanish version of Chapter 8 may be found in Los Inventores del Comic Español, 1873-1900.]


Reviews

Kidson, Mike.  [review.]  International Journal of Comic Art 2.1 (Spring 2000): 209-11.




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