{"product_id":"rodolphe-tpffer-david-kunzle-9781578069460","title":"Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips","description":"Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe T pffer (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume is the first English-language version of the T pffer 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oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-length stories, plus previously unpublished fragments of stories started and abandoned and manuscript segments omitted in the printed versions.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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e T pffer'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 T pffer's seminal place in the comics canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kunzle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578069467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578069460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.16h x 8.64w x 2.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2007 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2007 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/26\/2007 pg. 167","brand":"David Kunzle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43939741040895,"sku":"9781578069460","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_62e1239a-d08f-442e-9920-9304190386af.jpg?v=1681443223","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rodolphe-tpffer-david-kunzle-9781578069460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}