Histoire de M. Vieux Bois, published in English as
The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, and also known as
Les amours de Mr. Vieux Bois or simply
Monsieur Vieuxbois, is a 19th-century publication written and illustrated by the Swiss
caricaturist Rodolphe Töpffer. Published first in
Europe in
1837 as
Histoire de M. Vieux Bois, and then in the
United States as a
newspaper supplement,
The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, it is sometimes said to be the first
comic book.