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Cham - The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839-1862 (Hardcover)
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Cham - The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839-1862 (Hardcover)
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Cham, real name Count Amedee de Noe and a serious rival to Daumier,
may have been the epitome of a celebre inconnu, a famous unknown.
He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his
huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates on his
mastery of the important newcomer to the field of caricature, which
we call comic strip, picture story, and graphic novel. The volume
features facsimiles of nearly twenty of these from 1839 to 1863 and
ranging from one page to forty (this last a parody of Victor Hugo's
Les Miserables). In addition, summaries and sample illustrations of
twenty-seven ""minor works"" demonstrate that Cham is by far the
most important specialist of what was then a new genre in Europe.
Born to an ancient aristocratic family, Cham was from early on
wholly dedicated to an art considered far beneath his class.
Starting as a disciple of the father of the modern comic strip,
Swiss Rodolphe Toepffer, Cham soon launched out on his own,
evolving an original form of comedy, his own comedie humaine,
farcical, absurd, and parodic. His productivity was legendary and
comprised all the known genres of caricature, the full-page cartoon
lithograph, the thematic seasonal group, weekly and monthly
humorous comment (much like the daily newspaper cartoonist today),
and a feature called the Revue Comique, which made him the supreme
graphic journalist of his day. Hitherto unknown correspondence
reveals an attractive personality who was fond of animals and who
honored a low-class woman he eventually made his countess. Vaunted
comics scholar David Kunzle has created a fitting tribute to Cham's
impact and genius.
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