A System of Comics by Groensteen

If you’re an academic and into literary theory then Thierry Groensteen is not a foreign name to you. For the rest of us he’s just a funny sounding guy that reminds me actually of Thievery Corporation for some reason. Anyway, Groensteen is a Belgian writer who has devised a theory and system of understanding comics much like McCloud and Eisner. Only his work is more scholarly and dense with its discussion of spatio-topical systems, arthrology and braiding. The book feels like reading a manual on the quantum mechanics of comix. It’s trê bien~