. . "Swiss artist" . "Topffer, Rodolphe"@en . . "Rodolphe T\u00F6pffer"@en . "1799-01-31Z"^^ . . . . "1846Z"^^ . "1846-06-08Z"^^ . . . . . "1799Z"^^ . "Rodolphe T\u00F6pffer (31 January 1799 \u2013 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books, which can be seen as the earliest European comics.Paris-educated, T\u00F6pffer worked as a schoolteacher and ran a boarding school, where he entertained students with his caricatures. In 1837, he publishedHistoire de M. Vieux Bois (published in the United States in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck)."@en .