The system of comics / / Thierry Groensteen ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821307503321
• Autore: Groensteen Thierry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-94086-4; 9786612940866; 1-60473-693-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 741.5/69
• Soggetti: Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism; Semiotics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-178) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One. The Spatio-Topical System; Chapter Two. Restrained Arthrology: The Sequence; Chapter Three. General Arthrology: The Network; Conclusion; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Kat, and modern American autobiographical comics. The System of Comics uses examples from a wide variet