Eccentric Excursions; or, Literary and Pictorial Sketches

A single-issue comic from 1797–1814, Eccentric Excursions; or, Literary and Pictorial Sketches is a singular oddity from the British publisher Allen & West. Written and illustrated entirely by George Moutard Woodward, it stands as an early, self-contained example of the comic form, blending text and image in a way that predates the modern comic strip. Its importance lies in its rarity as a complete, creator-driven work from the dawn of sequential art.