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David Kunzle. Father of the Comics Strip:
Rodolphe Töpffer. Great comics
artists series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. 210
pages.
Paperback:
ISBN-10: 1578069483; ISBN-13: 9781578069484
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 1578069475; ISBN-13: 9781578069477
Library of Congress: PN6790.S93 T65 2007
Dewey: 741.5/092 B 22
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Publisher's On-Line Information || Author's
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Preface ... ix
Introduction ... 3
Chapter 1. Töpffer the Satirist: Contexts for Themes ... 9
Chapter 2. Goethe, Töpffer, and a New Kind of Caricature ... 49
Chapter 3. Jabot, Crépin, Vieux Bois ... 57
Chapter 4. Töpffer Launched, Comic Strip Defended, Literary Fame, Festus ... 74
Chapter 5. Politics and Absurdity: Pencil and Trictrac ... 83
Chapter 6. The Last Years: Cryptogame, Albert, Aesthetics and Physiognomics... 95
Chapter 7. Töpffer the Professional Dilettante ... 120
Chapter 8. Voyages en Zigzag: Humor of the Unexpected ... 128
Chapter 9. The Legacy ... 143
Envoi ... 183
Appendix A. Histoire de Sébastien Brodbec ... 185
Appendix B. Töpffer's Comic Picture-Novels by Professor Fr. Vischer ... 187
Notes ... 191
Bibliography ... 197
Index ... 201
Reviews
Browne, R. B. 2007. [review.] Journal of American Culture (30.3): 340. [also reviews Rodolphe Topffer: The Complete Comic Strips]
Kartalopoulos, Bill. 2007. [review.] Print (April): 166.
Ware, Chris. 2008. "Strip Mind: Among other things, Rodolphe Töpffer invented the graphic novel." Bookforum (April/May). [access online] [also reviews Rodolphe Topffer: The Complete Comic Strips]
Wivel, Matthias. 2007.
"Töpffer in Zigzag." Metabunker
(August 27). [access online]
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