‘Sequential art’ is another phrase ‘m not in love with. Will Eisner was a genius- but I think some of his experiences got him a little determined to gentrify comics with nicer names. In the early 60s he was chased out of schools for daring to promote comics as an educational medium. Many Americans were still under Werthram’s sway, and thought the devil had entered their classrooms. Eisner kind of wanted to erase that thinking.
‘Sequential art’ is another phrase ‘m not in love with. Will Eisner was a genius- but I think some of his experiences got him a little determined to gentrify comics with nicer names. In the early 60s he was chased out of schools for daring to promote comics as an educational medium. Many Americans were still under Werthram’s sway, and thought the devil had entered their classrooms. Eisner kind of wanted to erase that thinking.