02486nam 2200577Ia 450 991082130750332120200520144314.01-282-94086-497866129408661-60473-693-3(CKB)2670000000061790(EBL)619195(OCoLC)693762033(SSID)ssj0000443024(PQKBManifestationID)11299714(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443024(PQKBWorkID)10453776(PQKB)11269255(MiAaPQ)EBC619195(Au-PeEL)EBL619195(CaPaEBR)ebr10436091(CaONFJC)MIL294086(EXLCZ)99267000000006179020060523d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe system of comics /Thierry Groensteen ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippi20071 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57806-925-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-178) and index.Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One. The Spatio-Topical System; Chapter Two. Restrained Arthrology: The Sequence; Chapter Three. General Arthrology: The Network; Conclusion; Notes; IndexThis 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 varietComic books, strips, etcHistory and criticismSemioticsComic books, strips, etc.History and criticism.Semiotics.741.5/69Groensteen Thierry1093481MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821307503321The system of comics4069161UNINA