After placing his first cartoon (about a man who broke out of jail for the seventh time) in a local Swiss newspaper at the age of 20, he worked his way to America, where he was employed first by the New York Times as an illustrator, then by Newsweek, which hired him to write a comic strip.
Yet the White House, Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission are moving us toward a modern version of the debtors' prison concept: If a company goes broke, send the CEO to jail.