Resumen de Christophe, le texte, l'image et la chute des corps
The prehistory of comic strips is characterised by the working out of the relationship between text and image. This study of Christophe' s work shows how the authorial textual strategy ultimately tries to thwart the emergence of a semiosis specific to visual images by constantly mocking and j or pointing out the mimetic aspect of the visual «figure » (and of the cartoon « character »). But this strategy reveals what it is trying to deny — that the intelligibility of visual narrative is always already not a matter of mimesis but of semiosis.
