Sequential art may also be published in the form of comic strips. This type of sequential art is most often published in newspapers and magazines. Comic strips are similar to comic books, but they generally consist of about four panels of images and text. Some comic strips, however, have far more than four panels, and others are made of only one.
If the basic building block of a written story is the sentence. The corresponding element in sequential arts is the panel, or frame of each individual image used in the sequence. Just like sentences can be long, short, complex or simple, panels can take a variety of forms. They generally have a visible, rectangular border. But panels can take any shape and have no visible border. Whether they have a border or not, panels are usually separated by an area called the gutter.
The basic page layout of a comic book is a series of rectangular panels in an obvious order. But just like panels can take different forms so too can page layouts. Instead, the borders of their panels may only be defined by the gutter, and the layout of the page can seem to have very little structure.
It is an exercise in economy of expression as well as encouraging you to try out ideas and images that you might not usually use. I have been tweeting the results so far, which will probably have made no sense if you follow me on twitter. Man walking. Man spots tin-can. Man kicks tin can. Tin can has piece of string attached to it. Can lands making a very un-can-like sound. He picks the can up and it looks at him!
Suddenly the park behind him explodes! The can is pulled out of his hand and into a human sized robot. Not a giant robot. Cliff was insistent about that. Running fast through a street crowded with people who seem totally oblivious to recent explosion.
Thrown against a wall you watch a ripple of change move up the street. People pause then all walk away from you. They lack color and use sculpture instead.
Rome 's Trajan's Column , dedicated in AD, is an early surviving examples of a narrative told through the use of sequential pictures. Since only five codices of Mayan culture are known to survive to this day, the major sources of pre-Columbian sequentian art are paintings on vessels and plates. Several pre-Columbian codices produced by the Mayan and Mixtec cultures are clear examples of sequential art.
Tapestry is a form of textile art. One of its basic characteristics is that is woven, rather than embroidered. Weaving has a direction--that is, you begin at one point and proceed, by interlacing threads, to another point. You do not range over the surface, as a painter might while working on a canvas. In some cases tapestry was used as a medium to tell stories. The misleadingly named Bayeux Tapestry it is actually an embroidery tells the story of the Norman conquest of England.
It looks in some ways like a cartoon, as the story unrolls--two combatants [the Anglo-Saxon English, led by Harold Godwinson, recently crowned as King of England before that a powerful earl , and the Normans, led by William the Conqueror] fight a battle over the control of what was then England CE. Painting can also be a common ground for sequential art. For instance, in Lucas Cranach the Elder 's " Adam and Eve " different scenes of the Biblical story are shown in the same painting: on the front, God is admonishing the couple for their sin; in the background to the right are shown the earlier scenes of Eve's creation from Adam's rib and of their being tempted to eat the forbidden fruit; on the left is the later scene of their expulsion from Paradise.
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