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a lot of artists read comics. peter blake, raymond pettibon and lichtenstein being the ones that come to mind.
botticelli's illustrations for dante's inferno are pieces of sequential art. not because they chronologically illustrate the story, but because you don't really need the words to follow what's going on.
reading comics has tought me to look at art in a different way: i can pick out background detail really quickly, and can usually relate the reference to something. at the botticelli exhibition at the royal academy of arts earlier this year, i think i pissed off all the posh po-faced museum-goers by pointing out background details really fast, and pointing out that it was a piece of sequential art, and that i got the knack from reading comics.
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