The System of Comics
This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium's foremost scholars. In this book, originally published in France in 1999, Groensteen explains clearly the subtle, complex workings of the medium and its unique way of combining visual, verbal, spatial, and chronological expressions. The author explores the nineteenth-century pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer, contemporary Japanese creators, George Herriman's Krazy...
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An authoritative exploration of how the comics achieve meaning, form, and function
Foreword viiIntroduction 1The Spatio-Topicol System 24Restrained Arthrology: The Sequence 103General Arthrology: The Network 144Conclusion 159Notes 165Index 179
