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{{Short description|Comics theorist, publisher and curator}}
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'''Thierry Groensteen''' ({{IPA|fr|ɡʁɔnstɛn|lang}}; born 18 April 1957, [[Uccle]], [[Brussels]]) is one of the leading French-speaking [[Comics studies|comics researchers and theorists]], whose work has found influence beyond that field.

== Career ==
In 1984, Groensteen became the editor-in-chief of the old fanzine ''Schtroumpf : Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée'', transforming it into one of the first publications that would lead to serious academic criticism of comics in France and beyond. He integrated the publishing company into discussions on art and culture. His work as the organizer of the famous [[Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle|Colloque de Cérisy]], in 1987, titled "Bande dessinée, récit et modernité" ("Comics, narrative and modernity"), was also an important contribution.

As the director of [[Angoulême]]'s {{Interlanguage link multi|Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image|fr|3=Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image|lt=Musée de la bande dessinée}},<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.charentelibre.fr/2010/11/06/onze-auteurs-pour-cent-maitres,1005240.php|title=Onze auteurs pour cent maîtres de la BD|date=6 November 2010|work=CharenteLibre|language=French|accessdate=5 July 2012}}</ref> during the early 1990s, he worked on many projects such as exhibitions and their catalogues as well as on monographs on several authors, or themes and collections presented by the Angoulême Museum. He was also the director of the first run of its official magazine, ''[[Neuvième Art|9ème Art]]''.

He was the founder and editor at Éditions de L'An 2, before this publishing house was integrated by Actes Sud. He is a lecturer at the École européenne supérieure des Arts et technologies de l'image. He is also a key member of [[Oubapo]] association.<ref>Jörn Ahrens, Arno Meteling (eds.), ''Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence'', Continuum, 2010, p. 245 n. 1.</ref>

== Bibliography ==
=== Books ===
Thierry Groensteen has published countless articles and many books, all of which have been important or even broaching of some themes. He has penned, among other titles:
*{{cite book|title=Töpffer, l'invention de la bande dessinée ["Töpffer. The Invention of Comics"] |year=1994|publisher=Hermann|location=Paris|isbn=2-7056-6214-6}}, co-written with [[Benoît Peeters]].
*{{cite book|title=Systéme de la bande dessinée, ["System of Comics", issued in English in 2007 by the University Press of Mississippi]|year=1999|publisher=Presses universitaires de France|location=Paris|isbn=2-13-050183-4}}
*{{cite book|title=Lignes de vie. Le visage dessiné ["Lines of Life: The Drawn Face"]|year=2003|publisher=Mosquito|location=Saint-Egrève|isbn=2-908551-52-7}}
*{{cite book|title=Un objet culturel non identifié ["An unidentified cultural object"]|year=2006|publisher=Éd. de l'An 2|location=[Angoulême]|isbn=2-84856-078-9}}
*{{cite book|title=La Bande dessinée mode d'emploi ["Comics: A User's Manual"]|year=2007|publisher=les Impressions nouvelles|location=[Bruxelles]|isbn=978-2-87449-041-5}}
*{{cite book|title=La bande dessinée: son histoire et ses maîtres|year=2009|publisher=Skira-Flammarion|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-08-122757-6}}
*{{cite book|title=Bande dessinée et narration (Système de la bande dessinée, 2)|year=2011|publisher=PUF|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-13-058487-2}}. Translated by [[Ann Miller (comics scholar)|Ann Miller]] as ''Comics and narration'', Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2013.

=== Articles in English ===
*{{cite journal|journal=Nemo: The Classic Comics Library|title=The Schulz System. Why Peanuts work|volume=31/32|pages=26–41|date= 1992}}
*{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Popular Culture and Mass Communication in Twentieth-Century France|title=The evolution of the cultural status of the comic strip: an Art-Form in search of Recognition|pages=207–219|publisher=Edwin Mellen|location=Lewinston|year=1992}}
*{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Couleur directe|title={{Sic|?|hide=y|Fully|-}}painted artwork: seduction by images|pages=10–75|publisher=Kunst der Comics|location=Thurn|year=1993}}
*{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The Sixties|title=Comic Strip and Newspaper Cartoons: The Dawn of a Revolution|pages=132–148|publisher=Philip Wilson|location=London|year=1997|editor-last=Mellor|editor-first=David Alan}}
*{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Forging a new medium. The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century|title=Töpffer: the originator of the modern comic strip|pages=105–114|publisher=VUBPress|location=Bruxelles|year=1998}}
*{{cite journal|journal=International Journal of Comic Art|title=Gustave Doré's comics|volume=2|issue=2|pages=111–120|date=Fall 2000}}
*{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Ever Meulen, Verve|title=A matter of lines|pages=17–26|publisher=Éd. de l'An 2|location=Angoulême|year=2006}}
*{{cite journal|journal=European Comic Art|title=A Few Words about The System of Comics and More…|volume=1|issue=1|pages=87–93|date=Spring 2008}}
*{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=A Comics Studies Reader|editor1-last=Heer|editor1-first=Jeet|editor2-last=Worcester|editor2-first=Kent|title=Why Are Comics Still in Search of Cultural Legitimization|pages=3–11|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Jackson|year=2008}}
*{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=A Comics Studies Reader|editor1-last=Heer|editor1-first=Jeet|editor2-last=Worcester|editor2-first=Kent|title=The Impossible Definition|pages=124–131|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Jackson|year=2008}}
*{{cite journal|journal=European Comic Art|title=The Monstrator, the Recitant, and the Shadow of the Narrator|volume=3|issue=1|pages=1–21|date=Spring 2010|doi=10.3828/eca.2010.2 |last1=Groensteen |first1=Thierry }}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.editionsdelan2.com/groensteen/ Thierry Groensteen's personal website]

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