What is sequential art? It's all about comics? what's the defference?

[himeno1223]

I just found this new field at SCAD. It takes me a long time for me to choose which field I should choose for my master degree. There are not many sites about this, so I think maybe someone know it well. For the future(about job..)I'm thinking about animation.painting and drawing. illustration and sequential art.Especially, I wanna know what the difference is between illustration and sequential art. Are there some schools that offer sequential art for master degree?(or just SCAD does)...

[SkyRaider]

Sequential arts is this umbrella term for studies that deal with the telling of a story with pictures. It usually suggests cinematography/video/animation. Illustration is not sequential art. Illustration is like the child of painting and marketing: you make figurative paintings for a target audience.

[jhkurtz3]

Sequential art is art that exists both in space and time. Illustration can be a type of sequential art but doesn't need to be. Comics are a form of sequential art but not all sequential art are comics. Sequential art can take the form of painting, instalation, performance, film, photography or whatever you dream. Will Eisner wrote a book called Comics & Sequential Art. Read it. Another good book is Understanding Comics by Scott Mccloud.