Comic is a book which narrate a story with illustrations. Many people can laugh because of comics. Story in comics are funny and comic's story is more easy to understood by reader. The most reader of comics are children. It is because illustration in comics is fascinating. Sometimes there is a fullcolour comic and usually children interesting with something colourfull. So, children like to read comic because of the story and the illustration. In 1831, there was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist which considered to be the first modern comic creator. He is Rodolphe Topffer. He was born on the 1799 in Geneva. His father was a professional painter and caricature artist. In 1832 he was appointed Professor of Literature at the University of Geneva. After that, he became an author of short stories and occasionally entertained his students by drawing caricatures. The first of his work is Histoire de M. Vieux Bois. It was completed by 1827 but not published until 1837. It consisted of 30 pages, each contain one to six drawn panels with a caption narration below. It was translated and republished in the United States in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck. Topffer's stories were produced by autography, a variation of lithography that allowed him to draw on specially prepared paper with a pen. This
process allowed for a loose line, quicker and freer than engraving, the
usual process for printed illustration at the time.
