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Oldest Comic Strip

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Andrew999

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Oldest Comic Strip
« on: September 14, 2020, 07:52:07 AM »
Today we celebrate what is arguably the first comic strip published in America - The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck (1841) - a translated version of the original  Histoire de M Vieux Bois published four years earlier in Geneva (though written for personal amusement ten years before that.

You can read the whole thing here:

https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/digital/collections/books/ocn259708589/ocn259708589.html?mswitch-redir=classic

This may also exist on CB+, I didn't check, sorry

More background information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_M._Vieux_Bois

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe_T
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