Gustave Dore

Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Doré has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earned an unsurpassed reputation and corresponding scholarly attention. Doré himself repudiated his early work, and critics and biographers have given short shrift to his beginnings as a caricaturist. These caricatures are here rescued for the first time in English by the comics scholar David Kunzle.