Comics: medieval illuminations as Sequential Art

Abstract

It aims to present medieval illuminations as sequential art and, as such, to verify if this artistic type has elements of comics in its body to be considered as sequential art and which elements these would be. There is also a comparison of the secular art of illuminations with the current art of comics in this research, listing the Prince Valiant, a character created by Hal Foster, as a significant example to observe if the same elements of sequential art, used in the stories of the protagonist, are used in the medieval illuminations. The research is carried out in bibliographies that permeate those that are commonly focused on comics; however, the classic authors of this kind of study will also be used. Among the researchers, Eisner (1989), McCloud (1995), Diniz, Eder (n.d.) were used for the theoretical basis of the work to expose the subject of comics; Visali and Godoi (2016), to deal with the subject iluminations and Andrade (2017) mainly to discuss the Prince Valiant. However, other authors were listed for the theoretical framework of the work. There was also a search in a library of codices (E-Codices) to verify the evolution of the art of illumination and its slow but continuous direction towards sequential art.