Erstellt am: 20. 3. 2015 - 11:58 Uhr

Today's Webtip: The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck

You can read the oldest known comic book online.

Did you know that there is an academic field dedicated to the study of comic books?

I didn't.

Did you know that the oldest comic is from 1837?

That's about a good century older than I would have guessed. In my midwestern mind-space all comics started with Astounding Tales #1.

Did you know that you can read the oldest comic online?

Rudolphe Töpffer

You can read a little bit of background on The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck at www.openculture.com, or you can just read the whole darn thing here.