Sequential art
Reviewed works tagged this way are printed cartoons, traditional comics, graphic novels, bandes dessinées, manga, gekiga and so on.
Not everything that flies is a fly and some flies don’t fly. In Understanding Comics (1993), Scott McCloud proposed the term sequential art for the medium of comics covering all of the above. That was nice of him, because not all comics are comedies and not all comedies are comics. A lot of comics just do stand-up.
McCloud’s suggestion did not enter the mainstream and is easily confused for animation in moving pictures. It is also poor fit for single-panel comics. It is still better than the most popular English terms. I use it together with nonsequential art.
Reviews
- Action Comics (1938, contains 3)
- Batman (1940, contains 9)
- “Seeds of Jupiter” (1951)
- “Defiled” (1972)
- The Drifting Classroom (1972)
- The Heart of Thomas (1974)
- The Long Tomorrow (1976)
- Galaxy Express 999 (1977)
- Satsuma Gishiden (1977)
- Sayonara Nippon (1977)
- “A-shou satsujin jiken” (1979)
- “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” (1979)
- Seija ga machi ni yattekuru (1979)
- Domu: A Child’s Dream (1980)
- “Princess Mononoke: The First Story” (1980)
- The Incal (1980)
- Akira (1982)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982)
- Swamp Thing (1982)
- V for Vendetta (1982)
- The Journey of Shuna (1983)
- Appleseed (1985)
- Black Magic (1985)
- Dominion Tank Police (1986)
- “I Want a Garden Like This” (1986)
- The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
- Watchmen (1986)
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (1987)
- Aliens (1988)
- Aliens: Outbreak (1988 entry)
- Aliens: Nightmare Asylum (1989 entry)
- Berserk (1989)
- From Hell (1989)
- The Ghost in the Shell (1989)
- Aliens: Earth War (1990 entry)
- Bone (1991)
- The Metabarons (1992)
- Understanding Comics (1993)
- “Dining in Midair” (1994)
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (1994)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
- Preacher (1995)
- “Aliens: Lucky” (1996)
- Blame (1997)
- “300” (1998)
- Doing Time (1998)
- Shadow Star (1998)
- The Dormant Beast (1998)
- Planetes (1999)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999)
- No pasarán! (2000)
- The Filth (2002)
- Blame Academy (2004)
- “Proposal for ‘House Hunting’” (2004)
- Scott Pilgrim (2004)
- The Manga Guide Series (2004, contains 10)
- The Manga Guide to Databases (2004 entry)
- The Manga Guide to Statistics (2004 entry)
- The Manga Guide to Calculus (2005 entry)
- Rice Boy (2006)
- The Arrival (2006)
- The Manga Guide to Electricity (2006 entry)
- The Manga Guide to Physics (2006 entry)
- Order of Tales (2008)
- The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra (2008 entry)
- The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology (2008 entry)
- The Manga Guide to the Universe (2008 entry)
- “Plague Gods” (2009/2019)
- The Art of Flying (2009)
- The Manga Guide to Biochemistry (2009 entry)
- The Manga Guide to Relativity (2009 entry)
- “The Tethered Isle” (2009)
- “Waiting in Surya” (2009)
- “The Jewel of Brambool” (2010)
- “The Tusks of Wusterim” (2010)
- Unsounded (2010)
- Vattu: The Name & the Mark (2010/2013)
- “Settling Down” (2011)
- My Friend Dahmer (2012)
- Smålands mörker (2012)
- “Artifacts” (2013)
- Kill Six Billion Demons (2013)
- PLOX (2013)
- Kvinnor ritar bara serier om mens (2014)
- “Writhe” (2014)
- Religion: Ruining Everything Since 4004 B.C. (2015)
- “The Quiet World” (2015)
- Archangel (2016)
- The Illegalists (2016)
- Vattu: The Sword & the Sacrament (2016)
- Wage Slaves (2016)
- Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story (2017)
- 24 Panels (2018)
- Laws & Sausages (2018)
- Vattu: The Tower & the Shadow (2018)
- Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay (2019)
- The Big Country (2019)
- “Wanderer” (2019)
- “The Thinker” (2011/2020)
- Vattu: The Last Book (2022)
Other
The following make direct references to the sequential art tag.
- “Nonsequential art” tag description
- “Text” tag description
- Reviews on this site
- Manga (2005)