Christophe - La Famille Fenouillard - 1900

Fascinating illustrated edition of this humorous work by Christophe (pseudonym of Georges Colomb), considered one of the pioneers of French comics -
Beautiful publisher binding!

This tale features a provincial bourgeois family, the Fenouillards, whose extravagant adventures and comic misadventures are told with a satirical spirit and a vivid graphic verve that mark the emergence of a new narrative language.

Through illustrated panels paired with irony-filled texts, Christophe deftly depicts social foibles, the pretensions of the petty bourgeoisie, and the humorous misalignments between the characters and the situations.

The work, emblematic of the late 19th century, bears witness to the birth of the comic strip as an autonomous genre, where image and text combine to produce a humorous and critical effect -

Christophe - The Fenouillard Family - SD (Circa 1900) - Armand Colin -
78 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, a landscape-format volume in its full original red hard cover, illustrated, with signs of wear, gilded edges, spine smooth and blank, superb color illustration on the front board, a black motif at the center of the back board -

Good interior condition, browning; the work is enriched with beautiful color engravings both in the text and as plates.

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