And now, a little contribution of my own :)
In his most recently translated book, Thierry Groensteen puts his groundbreaking theories into practice with a collection of ten essays. Unfortunately the results are mediocre and real missed opportunity for comics scholarship. The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces Thierry Groensteen Ann Miller, translator University Press of Mississippi, 2017 (original French edition 2015) publisher site | WorldCat Thierry Groensteen is probably best known, at least in North America, for his groundbreaking theoretical works, The System of Comics and Comics and Narration , where he introduced ideas like page-as-network, panels and other elements interacting as an "arthrology", narrative "braiding", and much more. He's also one of sadly few theorists coherently challenging the stranglehold that McCloudian philosophy has on comics scholarship. It's unfortunate, then, that he hasn't applied his theories effectively here. Eight of the the ten