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          This volume is the first English-language version of the Töpffer comics oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-....

          Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical.

        1. Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical.
        2. Rodolphe Topffer: The Complete Comic Strips, Hardcover by Kunzle, David (COM ; Condition.
        3. This volume is the first English-language version of the Töpffer comics oeuvre and includes (unlike previous French and German editions) all of his eight full-.
        4. Rodolphe Töpffer was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist known for possibly creating the earliest European comics.
        5. Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (), schoolmaster, university professor.

          6. Rodolphe Töpffer

          Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist (–

          Rodolphe Töpffer

          Self-portrait of Rodolphe Töpffer ()

          Born()31 January

          Geneva, Léman, France (now Switzerland)

          Died8 June () (aged&#;47)

          Geneva, Restored Swiss Confederation (now Switzerland)

          NationalitySwiss
          Occupations
          • Cartoonist
          • Author
          • Painter
          Known&#;forCredited with being the first comics artist

          Rodolphe Töpffer (TOP-fər; French:[ʁɔdɔlftœpfɛʁ]; 31 January &#;– 8 June ) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist.

          He is best known for his illustrated books (littérature en estampes, "graphic literature"),[1] which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the father of comic strips[2] and has been credited as the "first comics artist in history."[3]

          Paris-educated, Töpffer worked as a schoolteacher at a boarding school,[4] where he entertained stude