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Imagerie d'Epinal
Imagerie d'Epinal
Imagerie d'Epinal were pictorial
broadsheets that told simple tales done by
the Imagerie Pellerin of France, and
reprinted by the Humoristic Publishing Co.
in Kansas, Missouri. These are important
for the history of comics and printing. In
Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe
Topffer, David Kunzle compares Tbpffer's
"kind of graphic naivete and that of the truly
unschooled and awkward Imagerie
d'Epinal" (77). Kunzle argues "the
subsequent history of the comic strip
occupies this middle groudm but inclining
more to Topffer than imagerie populaire"
(77). Kunzle's overall analysis places
Topffer alongside the likes of Gustave
Dor6, William Hogarth, Willhelm Busch,
and George Cruikshank in publications like
Punch, Le Charivari, L'lllustration, and
Illustrated London News.
References:
Kunzle, David. Father of the Comic Strip:
Rodolphe Topffer. Jackson, MS: UP of MS,
2007.
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Citation information for the Imagerie d'Epinal from MSU's online bibliography: "Imagerie d'Epinal:
Album d'lmages / Imagerie Pellerin. Kansas City, Missouri : Humoristic Publishing Co., 1888. 60
sheets : col. ill. ; 40 cm. 60 sheets done by the Imagerie Pellerin of France for the American
market. 'Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Company, Kansas City, Mo.'"
The individual pages are each numbered and titled:
Impossible Adventures
Francis the Foundling
The Discreet Child
The Selfish Little Boy
Theodorus the Slovenly
The Little Boys in Our Days
The Black Man
If I Was a Little Boy
The Adventures of a Voyage
Cecilia the Babbler
The Price of a Lie
Mary the Disobedient Girl
Louisette and the Lamb
Courage Recompensed
True Story of John Serinet
Charles the Disobedient Boy
The Little Girls in Our Days
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Imagerie d'Epinal
18. The Enchanted Whistle
19. Calino's Simplicity
20. The Magic Lantern
21. The Misadventures of Mr. Heedless
22. The King of the Moon
23. William Tell
24. Genevieve of Brabant
25. The Sailor-boy's Dream
26. The Costly Disobedience
27. The Disobedient Little Girls
28. The Disobedient Little Boys
29. The Urchins
30. The Inquisitive Little Girl
31. Little Tom Thumb
32. Little Red Riding Hood
33. The Flying Trunk
34. Jack Simpleton
35. The Land of Cocagne
36. Don Quichotte
37. Blonda and Fairy Caprice
38. Un-business-like Jack
39. Captain Goodman
40. The Lion and the Two Sailors
41. The Little Mama, or The Doll's Education
42. A Real Fairy
43. John Laughing and John Crying
44. The Uncomfortable Neighbours
45. The Bells
46. The Untruthful Boy
47. Julian the Coward
48. Master Unfortunate
49. Advice to Everybody
50. The Proud Matilda
51. The Museum of Little Children
52. The Museum of little Children (continued)
53. The Story of a Little Mouse
54. Martha the Good Negress
55. The Interesting Adventures of Mr. Sponger
56. Father Flog
57. The Imprudent Children
58. The Pearl Necklace
59. Cinderella
60. Wisdom of the Nations
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