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David Kunzle has given us a fabulous treasure in this new volume. It contains both Gustave Dore's vibrant, youthful comics (accompanied by Kunzle's wonderful English translation from the original French text) and a brilliant essay by Kunzle on Dore's comic strips. This book joins Kunzle's two recent volumes on Rodolphe Topffer (also published by University Press of Mississippi), which provide the gold standard for knowledge about nineteenth-century comics. This new volume picks up where those two books left off by tracing a very important and exciting part of Topffer's enormous legacy in comics. Together, these three works show indisputably that the comics art form has a long, inventive, and illustrious history in nineteenth-century Europe. Comics lovers and scholars will be absolutely delighted to read this new, landmark book. --Mark McKinney, professor of French, Miami University (Ohio), and author of <i>The Colonial Heritage of French Comics</i></p>

David Kunzle has given us a fabulous treasure in this new volume. It contains both Gustave Dore's vibrant, youthful comics (accompanied by Kunzle's wonderful English translation from the original French text) and a brilliant essay by Kunzle on Dore's comic strips. This book joins Kunzle's two recent volumes on Rodolphe Topffer (also published by University Press of Mississippi), which provide the gold standard for knowledge about nineteenth-century comics. This new volume picks up where those two books left off by tracing a very important and exciting part of Topffer's enormous legacy in comics. Together, these three works show indisputably that the comics art form has a long, inventive, and illustrious history in nineteenth-century Europe. Comics lovers and scholars will be absolutely delighted to read this new, landmark book. --Mark McKinney, professor of French, Miami University (Ohio), and author of The Colonial Heritage of French Comics

David Kunzle has given us a fabulous treasure in this new volume. It contains both Gustave Dore s vibrant, youthful comics (accompanied by Kunzle s wonderful English translation from the original French text) and a brilliant essay by Kunzle on Dore s comic strips. This book joins Kunzle s two recent volumes on Rodolphe Topffer (also published by University Press of Mississippi), which provide the gold standard for knowledge about nineteenth-century comics. This new volume picks up where those two books left off by tracing a very important and exciting part of Topffer s enormous legacy in comics. Together, these three works show indisputably that the comics art form has a long, inventive, and illustrious history in nineteenth-century Europe. Comics lovers and scholars will be absolutely delighted to read this new, landmark book. Mark McKinney, professor of French, Miami University (Ohio), and author of The Colonial Heritage of French Comics

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David Kunzle, Los Angeles, California, is distinguished professor (emeritus) of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer and Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips, both published by University Press of Mississippi

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