Comics Terminology

Comics Terminology

Comics vocabulary consists of many different techniques and images which a comic book artist employs in order to convey a narrative within the medium of comics.

This vocabulary forms a language variously identified as sequential art, graphic storytelling, pictorial stories, visual language or comics. Whilst scholars have yet to unite on a term to define the language, the communicative tools of that language have been formalised in works by authors such as Will Eisner, Scott McCloud and Mort Walker.