Forging a new medium
Subtitle: the comic strip in the nineteenth century
By: Pascal Lefèvre and Charles Dierick (eds.).
Contributors: Lefèvre, Pascal.; Dierick, Charles.
Publisher: VUB University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.; Popular culture -- History.
Other titles: Comic strip in the nineteenth century
Description: Specialists give an overview of the comic strip production in their country and present some other finest cartoonists of that era: Paul Gravett about Great Britain, David Kunzle about the USA, Antonio Martin about Spain, Nop Maas and Vansummeren about the Low Countries. There are also two more detailed discussions - Thierry Groensteen on Töpffer and Hans Ries on Busch - which offer new insights into two major cartoonists. The editors discuss the controversy over the definition of the comic strip and explain how the comic strip developed in the 19th century as a mass entertainment. There is also a timeline which gives an overview of rhe most important facts and names from 1800 till 1914.
Notes: In English; abstracts in Dutch and French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.