Histoire de M. Vieux Bois

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.