Ebook: Inventing Comics: A New Translation of Rudolphe Töpffer’s Reflections on Graphic Storytelling, Media Rhetorics, and Aesthetic Practice

Inventing Comics recovers and translates two of Rudolphe Töpffer’s nineteenth-century essays on the rhetorical invention of comics, an amateur aesthetic practice of the popular image. Growing out of contemporary philosophical thought, these essays reflect an early iteration of post-critical thought in the cultural and institutional shift from literacy to electracy.