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Early cave paintings are most likely to be one of the first forms of sequential art. The paintings job is to tell a story to the viewer about the way in which they live, in this painting, the scenes change and are juxtaposed which means that they are in deliberate sequence, and are read in a swift motion. E.g it would show the hunt, the chase, and the kill.

The paintings in the ancient egyptian tombs also recorded events using sequential art. This painting is from the tomb ' the Scribe of Menna ' 14BC. At first glance it seems like its just one big image of roughly fifty Egyptians, but it is in fact a short story of four egyptians and their life of harvesting, the scenes show working, surveying and tax collecting. This painting is read from bottom left to right.

The Beyauex Tapestry also shows sequential art, recording the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066. It has been printed on a big long wall with different pictures all mingled in. There are not speech bubbles or anything, but does show narrative throughout.

William Hogarth's Marriage à-la-mode is a painting from between the years 1743 and 1745. He created narratives that told a story and are designed to be shown side by side. This painting is one of six individual paintings showing the life of the upper class in the 18th century.

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I think that the most important thing about the art of graphic novels, is the environment and the things in the environment that could suggest something. But its not just the fact they are in the frame, its how they are portrayed within the frame. I have used three of the same primary images, and i will be explaining why the effects of each image makes a big impact, and how it can create a mood. As we can see in image one that there is color, this makes everything seem normal, and generates somewhat a happy mood, just like a friendly neighborhood, however most graphic novels aren't really about happiness, hence the name ' graphic novels '. In image 2, this is basically the average comic book drawing, all of the strokes are thin, and realistic like a photo. In image 3, the thick jaggard edges of the trees, and the dark shades of grass creates an intense gloomy atmousphere, the dark shades of black and grey make the landscape look baron, and abandoned. Although these images have no characters in them, the author obviously would have had to think about the environment and the surroundings before he places the character somewhere in the frame.

Graphic Novel Notes

sequential art - art in a sequence, poster or painting, one snapshot

juxtaposed, next to each-other, in deliberate sequence

cave paintings are sequential art

difference between these and normal photos is that they have scenes, purposeful sequencial things, the hunters, the chase and the kill, it will be all in one picture

the scribe of menna - two painted in egypt, tells a story of, its not one pic of 50 people, its a pic of 4 people all the way through, it has a different way of reading it, zig zags

big long wall, seperate pictures but all mingled in, sequential, no speech bubbles or anythihg, but here is narrtive

1940's william hogarth and these are narrative, story cycle, designed to be shown side by side

dliberate sequence

1800's

rrodolph toppfer

first person to originate frames and simplified drawings

first print press for making pre productions, one fo the most imprtant things to happen for westen socieoty, people could learn to read etc.

yellow kid, first cartoon people followed on a weekly basis, hogans ally, small gap toothed street urchin in a yellow nighty

there is a big difference between cartoon and comic

1930 frank sailsman, max gains, had an idea of reprinting the weekly comics into an anthology, likea book they would become comic books.

1935 collected together one big comic book, they were very popular, dc comics had to produce origonal stories, to keep up with it

late 30's early 40's producing the first origonal comics, action comics number 1, superman 1938

soon after this batman wonderwoman captured america

boom of the super hero dies, loads of super hero comics

bill ganes running EC comics

pushed the boundires more and more with their content, risky with the content they would use,

gets more violent and more hiddious

frederic - seduction of the innocent

polluting kids brains, and how comic books were just that

can be traced back to hte books they read

youngers are always corrupted

comic code authority was introduced - making sure comics arnt too graphic for kids CCA

sails of comics plummeted retails wantes nothing to do with the commics in their shops