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1	->''"All fiction, necessarily, requires the reader to fill in the blanks. I can't describe every single aspect of this scene. No one would want to read it. I merely supply one picture at a time. The reader connects the dots to establish continuity -- a plot, characters, and concepts. A thousand copies of this world, each customized within each person's brain."''
2	-->-- ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'', episode #995
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4	[[TitleDrop Sequential Art]] is a term proposed by Creator/WillEisner to describe {{art}} forms that use images displayed in a specific order for the purpose of graphic storytelling or conveying information. {{Comics}} evolved from this art style.
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6	It makes abundant use of {{Silent Scenery Panel}}s and {{Reaction Shot}}s. Compare PictureDrama, animations compounded by shots of still images. Contrast with {{Textplosion}}, when a comic's pages are suddenly overflown with dialogue or explanatory text. SqueakyEyes and WrittenSoundEffect originated from here. See also SequentialArtist.
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8	Not to be confused with a specific {{webcomic}} titled ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''.
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10	!!Examples:
11	[[AC:Comic Books]]
12	* ''ComicBook/UnderstandingComics'': To prove a point about TheTreacheryOfImages, the comic spreads printed copies of a pipe in multiple panels.
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14	[[AC:Comic Strips]]
15	* ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'': Notably {{averted}}. Unlike many other newspaper comics, this one is not really sequential, at best sometimes using the Dotted Line Paths.
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17	[[AC:Literature]]
18	* ''Literature/TheHeadlessHorsemanRidesTonightMorePoemsToTroubleYourSleep'': The poems spread out over two or three pages, which are "The Mummy", "The Zombie", "The Yeti", and the "The Headless Horseman", have as many illustrations. Just like the poems progress narratively, so do the illustrations.
19	* ''Literature/NightmaresPoemsToTroubleYourSleep'': The poems spread out over two or three pages, which are "The Haunted House", "The Vampire", "The Wizard", and the "The Dance of the Thirteen Skeletons", have as many illustrations. Just like the poems progress narratively, so do the illustrations.
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21	%%[[AC:Video Games]]
22	%%* ''VideoGame/Mother3''
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24	[[AC:Visual Arts]]
25	* ''Art/TheBayeuxTapestry'': It's a several-meters-long piece of cloth that captures the key events of the Norman conquest of England in full-color pictorial form with the occasional Latin annotation. Each PlotPoint can be considered a self-containing panel of sorts.
26	* Creator/WilhelmBusch: He produced black-and-white picture stories carved on wood (zincography) and accompanied by rhymed texts (often, tetra trochees). His ''The Virtuoso'' employs several ComicBookTropes long before they were codified in mainstream media.
27	* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dj%C5%AB-jinbutsu-giga Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga]]'': It's a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese set of scrolls translated as "animal-person caricatures". The scrolls are emakimono --i.e., ink-on-scroll-- featuring four panels arranged horizontally that tell short stories. They are considered the UrExample of {{manga}}.
28	* ''Art/MarieDeMediciCycle'': It's a collection of 21 oil {{paintings}} that narrate the life of the Regent Queen of France as if it were an [[TheEpic epic]]. They feature a plethora of deities and creatures from Myth/ClassicalMythology to serve as guides for Marie and as storytelling {{allegor\|y}}ies.
29	* ''Art/MarriageALaMode'': It's a collection of six paintings that tell the story of how a loveless, arranged marriage culminates in tragedy. The titles of the paintings provide some extra information as well.
30	* ''Art/MediciChapels'': Taken together, the side {{sculptures}} at the Medici brothers' tombs represent the passage of time (birth, growth, decline, and death) and the stages of the day (dawn, day, dusk, and night).
31	* Art/SistineChapel: There are four storylines entirely made of paintings positioned in chronological order so they narrate together important passages of ''Literature/TheBible''. The ceiling frescoes contain nine key scenes from the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis''. The southern and northern walls respectively detail the lives of Moses and Jesus as [[PlotParallel parallel plots]]. Finally, the ''Literature/BookOfRevelation'''s artworks on the alter describe the second coming of the Christian messiah.
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33	[[AC:Webcomics]]
34	* ''Webcomic/TheBullysBully'': Although otherwise in typical comic format (i.e., panels), there's no dialogue or narration whatsoever. The story is solely conveyed through non-textual visual cues and sequential, drawn {{scenes}}.
35	* ''Webcomic/{{Tellurion}}'': Small snapshots sans dialogue express the whole story. It primarily relies on {{Reaction Shot}}s to advance the plot.

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