In recent years, graphic novels have gained a renewed interest from a host of scholars in a diverse range of fields, including rhetoric and writing, media studies, literary studies, visual communication, graphic arts, and art history.
While many of these studies reference Rodolphe T pffer as the inventor (or, father) of the genre, his scholarly work addressing the theoretical foundation and significance of graphic novels has remained unavailable to English-speaking audiences.
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Inkshed Inventing comics: a new translation of rodolphe tpffer's reflections on graphic storytelling, media rhetorics, and aesthetic practice, paperback/rodolphe topffer
