Georges Colomb
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French botanist and pioneer of French comics
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marie-Louis-Georges Colomb was a French botanist, science populariser, and a pioneer of French comics, known as bandes dessinées. Under the pseudonym Christophe , Colomb created comics that were popular among the French intelligentsia, yet were published in Le Petit Français illustré, a children's paper. His popular L'idée fixe du savant Cosinus featured a brilliant, absent-minded scientist. His other comics included La Famille Fenouillard ; Le Sapeur Camember ; Les Malices de Plick et Plock ; and Le Baron de Cramoisy .