Les Amours de Mr Vieux Bois

Rodolphe Töpffer's Les Amours de Mr Vieux Bois (1839) is widely regarded as one of the earliest European comic strips, published by Aubert. This single-issue work follows the misadventures of its hapless, elderly protagonist in a series of sequential picture stories, a format Töpffer pioneered. Its importance lies in its foundational role in the development of the comic strip medium, blending caricature and narrative in a way that influenced generations of cartoonists.