Description
Numerous comic strips and picture stories appeared in periodicals other than Punch by artists who were likewise largely ignored. Like the Punch luminaries, they adopt in semirealistic style sociopolitical subject matter easily accessible to their (lower-)middle-class readership. The topics covered in and out of Punch by these strips and graphic novels range from French enemies King Louis-Philippe and Emperor Napoleon III to farcical treatment of major historical events: the Bayeux tapestry (1848), the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the Franco-Prussian War 1870. Artists explore a great variety of social types, occupations, and situations such as the emigrant, the tourist, fox hunting and Indian big game hunting, dueling, the forlorn lover, the student, the artist, the toothache, the burglar, the paramilitary volunteer, Darwinian animal metamorphoses, and even nightmares. In Rebirth of the English Comic Strip, Kunzle analyzes these much neglected works down to the precocious modernist and absurdist scribbles of Marie Duval, Europe's first female professional cartoonist.
About the Author
David Kunzle, professor emeritus of art history at the University of California, is author of Cham; Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Toepffer; Gustave Dore: Twelve Comic Strips; and Rodolphe Toepffer: The Complete Comic Strips, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496833990
Author David Kunzle
Format Hardback
Page Count 500
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 1535g