Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois

Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois
Publication information
FormatText comics
GenreHumor, text comics
Publication date1837
Creative team
Written byRodolphe Töpffer
Artist(s)Rodolphe Töpffer

Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois (also known as Les amours de Mr. Vieux Bois, or simply Mr. Vieux Bois), published in English as The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck (sometimes referred to simply as Obadiah Oldbuck),[1] is a 19th-century publication written and illustrated by the Swiss caricaturist Rodolphe Töpffer.

It was created in 1827 and published first in Geneva, Switzerland in 1837 as Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois,[1] then in London in 1841 by Tilt and Bogue editions as the book The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck,[1][2] and then in New York, U.S., in a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX (September 14, 1842),[3][4][5] followed by an 1849 republication as a book titled The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, published in New York by Wilson & Co.[6][7] The English-language editions were unlicensed copies of the original work as they were done without Töpffer's authorization.

Oldbuck is commonly referred to as the first comic book printed in the U.S. and America's first newspaper comic.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Coville, Jamie. "The History of Comic Books". TheComicsBooks.com. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2017. Originally published in several languages in Europe in 1837, among them an English version designed for Britain in [1841]. A year later it was that version reprinted in New York on Sept. 14, 1842 for Americans...
  2. ^ "The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck". Grand Comics Database.
  3. ^ a b The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. "On September 14, 1842, a New York paper, Brother Jonathan, ran an English-language version of Oldbuck (published in Britain a year earlier) as a supplement."
  4. ^ Beerbohm, Robert; Wheeler, Doug; De Sá, Leonardo (2003). "Töpffer in America". Comic Art. No. 3. St. Louis, Missouri. pp. 28–47.
  5. ^ "Brother Jonathan Extra #v2#9". Grand Comics Database.
  6. ^ The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. Wilson & Co. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2018 – via Dartmouth College Library.
  7. ^ "The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck". Grand Comics Database.