Comic Transformations РȚpffer and the Reinvention of Comics in the First Half of the 19th Century

articles and essays, comics and cartooning

To mark the recent release of David Kunzle’s long-awaited collection of Swiss comics pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer’s comics work, as well as his monograph on Töpffer the cartoonist (read our review here), the Metabunker hereby presents the following introduction to the comics of Töpffer. It should be noted that the text is a slightly edited version…