Lemuel Gulliver
While surviving works of these periods, such as Francis Barlow's "A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot" (c. 1682) as well as "The Punishments of Lemuel Gulliver" and "A Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth (1726), can be seen to establish a narrative over a number of images, it wasn't until the 19th century that the elements of such works began to crystallise into the comic strip.