SYMHC Live at NYCC: Rodolphe Töpffer and the First Comic Book

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Before there were superheroes, a Swiss teacher drew entertaining doodles for friends. As he developed his sketches into stories told with multiple captioned images, he inadvertently invented the first sequential art comics in the Western world.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.
0:36.7	Hey, we recently were lucky enough to be part of New York Comic Con Presents,
0:47.0	which we have talked about before, but is the parallel evening programming for New York Comic Con.
0:52.2	So today we are sharing the audio of that recording,
0:55.6	which was made at Hudson Merkantiel.
0:57.5	It is all about the man who is often credited as being the creator of the first comic book in the Western world.
1:03.9	And we are definitely going to get into all the qualifiers around that in the course of this show.
1:10.1	So it is a full episode, so let's hop right in and hear it.
1:14.3	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly from and I'm Tracy V Wilson.
1:28.6	Tracy humans have always communicated your pictures.
1:31.6	Pretty much.
1:32.6	Always always.
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