History of Sequential Art or Hey, who put all these comics in Art History?!
Brandon Blatcher
art, starting with cave painting, Venus of Willendorf, etc, etc and
steadily moving forward.
I'm seeing tons of examples of sequential art throughout early art, even
word ballons in on Greek vases and I'm eating it up. On the one hand, I
know sequential art has a long history, but it's still interesting to
actually see specific pieces and how they fit overall into art history.
My question is, has anyone tackled a real history of sequential art, not
just comics, dating all the way from the dawn of art, be it in a
book/school course/website or paper? I'm looking for something that really
concentrates on early art. Something that covers Islamic or Asain art
would be cool too.
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Brandon
David Crowe
: So, i'm back in art school and taking art history classes. It's Western
Scott McCloud covered the real early stuff a bit in Understanding Comics.
I'd check the bibliography for you, but my copy is on loan. You might try
e-mailing him on the subject.
Fred Schodt's Manga! Manga! has a breif history of Japanese sequential art
that starts in the 12th Century.
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David "No Nickname" Crowe http://www.primenet.com/~jetman
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Brandon Blatcher
<jet...@primenet.com> wrote:
>Brandon Blatcher <nom...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>: So, i'm back in art school and taking art history classes. It's Western
>: art, starting with cave painting, Venus of Willendorf, etc, etc and
>: steadily moving forward.
>
>: I'm seeing tons of examples of sequential art throughout early art, even
>: word ballons in on Greek vases and I'm eating it up. On the one hand, I
>: know sequential art has a long history, but it's still interesting to
>: actually see specific pieces and how they fit overall into art history.
>
>: My question is, has anyone tackled a real history of sequential art, not
>: just comics, dating all the way from the dawn of art, be it in a
>: book/school course/website or paper? I'm looking for something that really
>: concentrates on early art. Something that covers Islamic or Asain art
>: would be cool too.
>
>Scott McCloud covered the real early stuff a bit in Understanding Comics.
>I'd check the bibliography for you, but my copy is on loan. You might try
>e-mailing him on the subject.
UC only has a selected biography
>Fred Schodt's Manga! Manga! has a breif history of Japanese sequential art
>that starts in the 12th Century.
Cool, this one I didn't know about.
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Brandon
SRoweCanoe
>>: My question is, has anyone tackled a real history of sequential art, not
>>: just comics, dating all the way from the dawn of art,
there is/ was. There are two volumes that might cover this material.I know it
covers the 1700 and 1800s. Expessive books, Unforanetly I can't recall the
name of the book or aurthor.University of Califorania Press?
History of the Comic Strip? Early Comic Strip?
Of course, it's not about comic strips, per say;
Steven Rowe
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Martin Wisse
>Brandon wrote:
>
>>>: My question is, has anyone tackled a real history of sequential art, not
>>>: just comics, dating all the way from the dawn of art,
>
>there is/ was. There are two volumes that might cover this material.I know it
>covers the 1700 and 1800s. Expessive books, Unforanetly I can't recall the
>name of the book or aurthor.University of Califorania Press?
The author is David Kunzle, the books are _History of the Comic Strip_
vol 1 and 2. Very good and very thorough.
Lionel English <leng...@mail.sdsu.edu> has photocopied reprints available.
Martin Wisse