Sequential Art
noun
In his 1985 book, Comics and Sequential Art, Will Eisner defined sequential art as "...the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea." Sequential art is not a style of drawing, but rather the process of arranging multiple drawings, and words, together to form comics, graphic novels and/or manga.
Some people use the term "Sequential Art" as a synonym for "comics" because it is felt to be a more respectable term, however this use of the term is questionable and part of the larger, ongoing debate regarding the proper definition of the term "comics."
In his 1985 book, Comics and Sequential Art, Will Eisner defined sequential art as "...the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea." Sequential art is not a style of drawing, but rather the process of arranging multiple drawings, and words, together to form comics, graphic novels and/or manga.
Some people use the term "Sequential Art" as a synonym for "comics" because it is felt to be a more respectable term, however this use of the term is questionable and part of the larger, ongoing debate regarding the proper definition of the term "comics."
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