Böcker av David Kunzle

Cham, real name Count Amedee de Noe, may have been the epitome of a celebre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates on his mastery of the important newcomer to the field of caricature, which we call comic strip, picture story, and graphic novel.

Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Toepffer of Geneva invented a new art form: the comic strip, or "picture story", that is now the graphic novel. In a biographical framework, Kunzle situates the comic strips in the Genevan and European culture of the time as well as in relation to Toepffer's other work.