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The Term Comics Long Ago Became Obsolete And Inaccurate. It Merely Defined The Content Of The Early Joke-based Comical Strips. Sequential Art Is A More Accurate Description Of The Form. I First Suggested It Because I Believed Something Needed To Be Done To Correct The Feeling Of Inferiority By Artists And Writers In This Field.

Comics Deal With Two Fundamental Communicating Devices: Words And Images. Admittedly This Is An Arbitrary Separation. But, Since In The Modern World Of Communication They Are Treated As Independent Disciplines, It Seems Valid. Actually, The Are Derivatives Of A Single Origin And In The Skillful Employment Of Words And Images Lies The Expressive Potential Of The Medium.

Comics, Which Are Really Best Described As An Arrangement Of Images In A Sequence That Tell A Story - An Idea - Is A Very Old Form Of Graphic Communication. It Began With The Hieroglyphics In Egypt, It First Appeared In A Recognizable Form In The Medieval Times As Copper Plates Produced By The Catholic Church To Tell Morality Stories.

A Key To My Thinking Has Always Been The Almost Fanatical Belief That What I Was Engaged In Was A Literary Art Form. That Belief Was Compounded Out Of Ego And Necessity, I Guess, A Combination Of The Two.

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