[1] The comic appeared as a daily strip in the Austrian tabloid Das Kleine Blatt published by Vorwärts-Verlag from October 5, 1930.
Tobias Seicherl, a typical petit bourgeois, was drunk on many occasions and often took to strolling through the streets of Vienna with his walking stick, pipe and dog named Struppi.
Little was known or discussed about Seicherl’s career or his living conditions, which made him the ideal person with which social-democratic readers could identify themselves, helping to vent their frustrations toward the bourgeois of the time.
The series was politically orientated between the years 1930–1934, in which Tobias Seicherl was seen to sympathize with Adolf Hitler.
From 1958 to 1961, the Seicherl series appeared in a variety of different Viennese newspapers yet was unable to once again achieve the high point of its earlier success.