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comics studies Comics studies (also comic art studies, sequential art studies or graphic narrative studies) is an academic field that focuses on comics and sequential art. Although comics and graphic novels have been generally dismissed as less relevant pop cul ...
, sequential art is a term proposed by
comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...
Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series ''The Spirit'' (1940–1952) was not ...
Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series ''The Spirit'' (1940–1952) was not ...
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Comics and Sequential Art ''Comics and Sequential Art'' is a book by American cartoonist Will Eisner that analyzes the comics medium, published in 1985 and revised in 1990. It is based on a series of essays that appeared in ''The Spirit'' magazine, themselves based on Eisn ...
'', Poorhouse Press, 1990 (1st ed.: 1985), p. 5. to describe
art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
forms that use
image An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...
s deployed in a specific order for the purpose of graphic storytellingWill Eisner, ''
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative ''Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative'' is a 1996 book by American cartoonist Will Eisner that provides a formal overview of comics. It is a companion to his earlier book ''Comics and Sequential Art'' (1985). Sources See also * Comics st ...
'', W. W. Norton, 2008 (1st. ed.: Poorhouse Press, 1996), "Introduction: Comics as a Medium." (i.e., narration of graphic stories) or conveying information. The best-known example of sequential art is
comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...
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Etymology

The term "sequential art" was coined in 1985 by comics artist Will Eisner in his book ''
Comics and Sequential Art ''Comics and Sequential Art'' is a book by American cartoonist Will Eisner that analyzes the comics medium, published in 1985 and revised in 1990. It is based on a series of essays that appeared in ''The Spirit'' magazine, themselves based on Eisn ...
''. Eisner analyzed this form into four elements: design, drawing, caricature, and writing. Scott McCloud, another comics artist, elaborated the explanation further, in his books ''
Understanding Comics ''Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art'' is a 1993 non-fiction work of comics by American cartoonist Scott McCloud. It explores formal aspects of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary, and various ways in ...
'' (1993) and ''
Reinventing Comics ''Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form'' (2000) is a book written by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud. It was a thematic sequel to his critically acclaimed ''Understanding Comics'', and was f ...
'' (2000). In ''Understanding Comics'', he notes that the movie roll, before it is being projected, arguably could be seen as a very slow comic. Related terms include:
visual narrative A visual narrative (also visual storytelling) is a story told primarily through the use of visual media. The story may be told using still photography, illustration, or video, and can be enhanced with graphics, music, voice and other audio. Overv ...
, graphic narrative, pictorial narrative, sequential narrative, sequential pictorial narrative,Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook (eds.), ''The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach'', Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, p. xxx. sequential storytelling,Carole Ann Moleti
"Graphic Literature: A Blend of Genre, Medium, and Form: An International Survey of Graphic Literature"
''The Internet Review of Science Fiction'', June 2008. graphic literature, sequential literature, and narrative illustration. The related term sequential sculpture has also been used.Cf. Elaine H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi (eds.), ''Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism'', Routledge, 2012, p. 6: "
ong Soon Ong or ONG may refer to: Arts and media * Ong's Hat, a collaborative work of fiction * “Ong Ong”, a song by Blur from the album The Magic Whip Places * Ong, Nebraska, US, city * Ong's Hat, New Jersey, US, ghost town * Ong River, Odisha, India ...
Min's ... visual essay, "Mother Load," features the '' bojagi'' wrapping cloth... The first two parts of this sequential sculpture refer to the past and present of ... Korea."


See also

* Bayeux Tapestry * ''
Biblia pauperum The (Latin for "Paupers' Bible") was a tradition of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences between the Old and New Testaments. Unlike ...
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Glossary of comics terminology developed specialized terminology. Some several attempts have been made to formalize and define the terminology of comics by authors such as Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, R. C. Harvey and Dylan Horrocks. Much of the terminology in English is ...
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Multiliteracy Multiliteracies is a term coined in the mid-1990s by the New London GroupThe New L ...
* Photo comics and
photo-romance The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist ...
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Sequart Organization Sequart Organization (; also known as Sequart Research & Literacy Organization) is an online magazine that focuses on the study of popular culture and the promotion of comic books as an art form. Sequart also publishes books and produces document ...
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Sequence (filmmaking) In film, a sequence is a series of scenes that form a distinct narrative unit, which is usually connected either by a unity of location or a unity of time. For example, a heist film The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime film fo ...
* Trajan's Column *
Visual literacy Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text. Visual literacy ...
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Bande dessinée (singular ; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. These countries have a long traditi ...


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