Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois

Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois
Panel from Histoire de Mr. Vieux-Bois
Publication information
FormatText comics
GenreHumor, text comics
Publication date1837
Creative team
Written byRodolphe Töpffer
ArtistRodolphe 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), 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, then in London in 1841 by Tilt and Bogue editions as the book The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, and then in New York, U.S., in a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX (September 14, 1842), followed by an 1849 republication as a book titled The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, published in New York by Wilson & Co. 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.