Knowra Sequential art Sequential art Sequential art is a visual storytelling form in which images are arranged in sequence to convey events or ideas. It can use words, but images carry the narrative progression.
Panel (comics) : A bounded image or scene in a comic that represents a moment, action, or setting. Panels are the basic units whose arrangement creates a sequence.
Comics grammar : Conventions governing how panels, images, and words combine to communicate in comics. These conventions make sequences legible without requiring every moment to be shown.
Trajan's Column : A Roman monument whose continuous spiral relief depicts Trajan's campaigns in Dacia. Its carved scenes form an early extended narrative sequence in images.
Comics : A medium that uses images, often with text, arranged in deliberate sequence to communicate. Comics are the best-known contemporary form of sequential art.
Single-panel cartoon : A cartoon that presents one image, usually with a joke, observation, or commentary. It often implies a story but does not depend on a sequence of images.
Gutter (comics) : The space between panels in a comic, where visual transitions leave events unstated. Readers infer time, movement, and causation across these gaps.
Eisner–McCloud theory of comics : A body of influential theory explaining comics through sequential images, visual language, and reader inference. It offers influential accounts of how sequential images produce narrative.
Bayeux Tapestry : An embroidered linen cloth depicting the Norman conquest of England and the events surrounding it. Its continuous scenes combine image and inscription to narrate historical events.
Graphic novel : A book-length work of comics, often presenting a sustained narrative or unified subject. Graphic novels use extended sequences to sustain complex stories.
Illustrated novel : A prose narrative accompanied by illustrations that generally do not carry the full story sequence. Its images supplement prose rather than consistently advancing events panel by panel.
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