Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846), also known as the father of the comic strip was a university professor in Geneva when something he did in his pastime caught wind and immediate popularity throughout Europe and the United States. Because of his poor eyesight, his aesthetic was loose and broken and he created sequential imagery that can now be referred to as doodling.
His comics were generally surreal or absurd humour and he liked to mix his 'maniacal protagonists' with 'social satire and myth'. (UPM)
University Press of Mississippi. A Critical Study of the Swiss Artist who Created the Comic Strip Available from: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/869
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