I feel that sequential art has to fulfill several criteria:
1. The work must have multiple frames or views in which a different image is told.
Sequential implies a movement from one image to the next, to express a message.
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| This |
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| Not this |
2. The work must have some sort of underlying narrative, purpose or message.
Several random pictures arranged with no purpose or forethought does not constitute as sequential art.
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| Phases of fruit life |
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| Art, but non-sequential without context |
3. The work must have a visual component that aids in its purpose.
After all, scanned pages in the book do tell a stories using multiple frames, but are not sequential art because of its complete lack of a visual or pictorial component.
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| The visuals are simply filler |
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| Words enhance the clarity of the pictorial narrative |
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