Comics - The link between art and literature

Welcome to the amazing world of comics! Without doubt, you have heard of famous superheroes such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Naruto, Dennis the Menace and many more! If you have, you have been introduced to these characters either through cartoons or films...

However, did you know these characters initially jumped out of pages of comics? The imagination of their creators; the writers and the artists? Join us on this journey so that you can understand from where your favourite hero originated from!

Will Eisner, who established the term sequential art and is considered to have popularized the graphic novel.In 1996, Will Eisner published Graphic Storytelling, in which he defined comics as "the printed arrangement of art and balloons in sequence, particularly in comic books." Eisner's earlier, more influential definition from Comics and Sequential Art (1985) described the technique and structure of comics as sequential art, "the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea."

In Understanding Comics (1993) Scott McCloud defined sequential art and comics as "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer." this definition excludes single-panel illustrations such as The Far Side, The Family Circus and most political cartoons from the category, classifying those as cartoons. By contrast, The Comics Journal's "100 Best Comics of the 20th Century", included the works of several single-panel cartoonists and a caricaturist, and academic study of comics has included political cartoons.