Rodolphe Töpffer
Swiss teacher and author
Rodolphe Töpffer was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books, which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the father of comic strips and has been credited as... Wikipedia
Born: January 31, 1799, Geneva, Switzerland
Died: June 8, 1846 (age 47 years), Geneva, Switzerland
Parents: Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer
Education: High School Calvin
Children: Jean-Charles Töpffer, François Töpffer, and Adele Töpffer
Nationality: Swiss
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Rodolphe Töpffer was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books which are possibly the ...
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Feb 21, 2024 · Rodolphe Töpffer was a 19th-century Swiss cartoonist, generally regarded as the "inventor" of the comic strip. While many of his techniques ...
Töpffer, a 19th-century Swiss artist, was particularly important, and he is often described as the father of the modern comic.
Jul 2, 2018 · He is known as the father of comic strips (or what we now generally call graphic novels. This is a translation of his most famous and ...
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Rodolphe Töpffer (1799–1846), whose work remains interesting also for the insight into its era that it affords, used many devices associated with comics, as the ...
Considered the inventor of the comic strip, Rodolphe Töpffer is born in Geneva in 1799. Although the son of the painter and satirical caricaturist Wolfgang ...
Oct 13, 2011 · He completed eight picture stories, as well as numerous essays, novels, reviews, and plays—a prodigious output for such a short life. Father of ...
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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- ...
Jan 17, 2024 · Born on January 31, 1799, in the heart of Geneva, Rodolphe Töpffer was the son of Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, a painter of moderate renown, and his ...
Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (1799–1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman, and writer of fiction, ...
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