A Conversation for Comic Strips or Sequential Art

Comics

Post 1

Miranda (Make tea! Yes, Cissdur, it's still me)

The Norwegian word for comics is 'tegneserie', which means 'a series of drawings'. Aren´t we lucky to have such a neutral name for it? People still think it´s for children, though...
Elin


Comics

Post 2

Decaf Silicon

I like Eisner's "sequential art" to remove the humor connotation. I don't like "graphic novel" when too widely used, especially since it sounds like something dirty to laymen.


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