Inventing comics: a new translation of Rodolphe Tèopffer's reflections on graphic storytelling, media rhetorics, and aesthetic practice

Inventing Comics recovers and translates two of Rudolphe Topffer'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.