SURREALISM, SCIENCE FICTION AND COMICS

The chapters that bring in comics range from theoretical discussions of the relation between the original comic strips of Rodolphe T opffer and the key Surrealist technique of automatism, used in art and writing, through the cybernetic implications of the proto-SF Surrealist cine-roman 'M. Wzz...' of 1929, which has never discussed in any detail before, to the 1948 Vache paintings by Rene Magri tte, inspired by Louis Forton's strip Les Pieds nickeles. This pioneering set of essays shows how Surrealism from the 1920s to the 1 970s did ...[Leer más]