Bücher von Thierry Groensteen

Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. He then delves into recent masterpieces. Groensteen recaptures the impact with which these works broke with what had gone before.

This 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.

This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's groundbreaking The System of Comics, in which he set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics.