Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips

This ongoing University Press of Mississippi collection gathers the pioneering 19th-century comic strips of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Swiss artist widely credited as a father of the modern comic. Edited and contextualized by scholar David Kunzle, the series presents Töpffer’s complete works in English for the first time, preserving his satirical, hand-lettered masterpieces—from Histoire de M. Vieux Bois to Les Amours de M. Vieux Bois. A single volume so far, it’s an essential resource for understanding the origins of sequential art.