ENG 2118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sequential Art, Will Eisner, Understanding Comics
20 Jan 2017
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Demonstrated the ability of the medium to take many different forms and. Precursors other (and earlier) forms of sequential narrative art aimed at adults as well (cid:523)(cid:498)the rise of the graphic model(cid:499)(cid:524) The 1990s was when the focus of comics shifted from being for kids to being: at the time it was still a marginalized medium, the invisible art because although we have these institutions that are realities. Attempted to establish a parallel history to ancient times. Consider the opening paragraph of the following encyclopaedia entry on seriously as part of either side. focused to literature in revered watermarks, there was also institutions that are focused to visual arts. Comics, relying on techniques on both of these worlds, were also excluded from both these institutions. Because of it"s high brevity, it was not taken: (cid:498)some scholars argue that comics-sequential narratives, usually involving text and images have their roots in ancient forms such as still others disregard all these contentions(cid:499)
