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 not every fly is flying. 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, but is still better than the most popular English terms.
Reviews
- Action Comics (1938)
- Batman (1940)
- “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)
- Domu: A Child’s Dream (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)
- The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
- Watchmen (1986)
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (1987)
- Aliens (1988)
- Aliens: Outbreak (1988)
- Aliens: Nightmare Asylum (1989)
- Berserk (1989)
- From Hell (1989)
- The Ghost in the Shell (1989)
- Aliens: Earth War (1990)
- Bone (1991)
- The Metabarons (1992)
- Understanding Comics (1993)
- 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)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999)
- No pasarán! (2000)
- The Filth (2002)
- Scott Pilgrim (2004)
- The Manga Guide Series (2004)
- The Manga Guide to Databases (2004)
- The Manga Guide to Statistics (2004)
- The Manga Guide to Calculus (2005)
- Rice Boy (2006)
- The Arrival (2006)
- The Manga Guide to Electricity (2006)
- The Manga Guide to Physics (2006)
- Order of Tales (2008)
- The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra (2008)
- The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology (2008)
- The Manga Guide to the Universe (2008)
- “Plague Gods” (2009/2019)
- The Art of Flying (2009)
- The Manga Guide to Biochemistry (2009)
- The Manga Guide to Relativity (2009)
- “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)
- “Friends & Enemies” (2016)
- “Rice Boy Sketchbook” (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)
- “Wanderer” (2019)
- “The Thinker” (2011/2020)
Other
The following make direct references to the sequential art tag.
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