Sequential Art (webcomic)

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Sequential Art
Author(s) Phillip M. Jackson
Website Sequential Art
Current status / schedule Daily
Launch date 2006
Genre(s) Geek humor
Furry Fandom

Sequential Art is a webcomic written and illustrated by Phillip M. Jackson. The series is a daily webcomic that tells a slice of life story with its cast of characters being either Anthropomorphic ( three of the main characters, along with several others, are Anthropomorphic) or human characters, and makes frequent pop culture references often around video or computer games. It focuses on providing narrative through humour, either with imagery or dialogue. Each strip is usually 3 or 4 panels in structure but may deviate to emphasize or aid particular plot lines or jokes.

The series focuses around four characters - Art, a human illustrator and cartoonist; Kat (Kathleen) Vance, a female Anthropomorphic cat photographer stuck in a 'dead-end' job who wants to break away and become a professional; Pip McGraw, a fanboy/nerd/geek male penguin and college-buddy of Art who makes a living buying and selling stuff via EBuy; and Scarlet, a naive female Squirrel whose short attention span seems to disguise a rather incredible intellect.

A book of collected strips, Sequential Art Volume 1, was released through Lulu in October 2007. Many of Sequential Art's characters have also appeared in one-shot sketches and pinups that may or may not be connected to the main SA canon.

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[edit] Main Characters

Art

A human concept and graphic artist who works for Wiquid Design. He has distinguishably thick and highly expressive eyebrows that are described as Weetabix and rides a scooter that is temperamental. He is also prone to hysterics when things that are unexpected happen. It is likely that he was bullied frequently as a child, as he has an adversarial relationship with children at large.

Kat

Kat Vance is an anthropomorphic cat who excels in photography. Her ambition is to break into professional photography, shooting National Geographic quality material. She is sometimes intolerant of some of the guys' antics in the house, but remains on good terms with them. She has also been the rival of Hilary Locke since school, which shows no sign of dying down. She seems to show an obsession with cream, catnip (which in some one-off sketches puts her into a hallucinogenic state) and string. Kat has a habit of drinking heavily on the holidays; her roommates are often seen tormenting her whilst she's hung over.

Pip

Pip McGraw is the long time college buddy of Art, and lives with Art and Kat. Originally the 3rd and final member of the household, he discovers Scarlet in the loft. He is mildly perverted or lecherous around women or female elves... or just mildly perverted in general, really... and has an extensive comic book collection which he obsesses over. He makes his money from buying and selling via online auctions. Pip is also an avid enthusiast of the online game Realm of Lorcraft where he is a level 63 knight called "Killaman Slaughtermaster"


Scarlet

Scarlet claims to be a scientist and has the IQ to match it. But she is easily distracted. The comic relief character of the series, she was depicted as entirely naked, using random items to cover herself until she received a jumper as a Christmas present. Naive, almost to a fault, Scarlet boasts a huge amount of energy to the point of hyperactivity, is extremely curious, and has a unique style of speech. She will often take any opportunity to acquire food, even if it means raiding and clearing out the fridge or stealing Leonard's treats.

Scarlet is highly intelligent, though this is easily masked by her childish mentality. She has, however, been shown to have built a working ray gun and analyzed the contents of a snowflake simply by licking it. Her past is relatively obscure and despite her being technologically inclined, rather than being a "scientist" she may have been a lab subject instead.

Leonard

Leonard is a non-anthropomorphic platypus and household pet. Kat won Leonard from an online auction "Mystery box". He has a poisonous barb that he extends when threatened or duped by Scarlet's thieving; unlike real platypi, whom have the barb on their hind legs, Leonard's is a giant, jagged thing that springs from his back, an is easily as long as his standing height by itself. Leonard is lovable, clumsy, and amazingly unlucky.

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Vanity Thorn

Kat's best friend from college. A gothic vampire novelist, she states that she was a sterotypical goth until Kat introduced her to triple espressos.

Hilary Locke

Hilary is Kat's longtime (unfriendly) rival and the two have never seen eye-to-eye. A member of Ann Winters, she was a client of Art, and discredited his work to spite Kat, but was put in her place after Art blackmailed her with (questionable and unshown) images of her from the Internet.

Kat and Hilary have a longtime rivalry that endures to this day, and she has made several appearances in the series, most of them involving encounters with Kat, such as a school reunion or an argument over a top that erupted into a fist fight. The fact she is also known as Gabrielle Goodtime is explained when Art and Pip find out she was once involved in porn.


Jack and the Denizens

A small and megalomaniac resident of Pipingrad, a European country that was destroyed in the early 20th century. He was able to control and influence his "comrades", the Denizens into an invasion, but is stopped and seemingly killed when a laser satellite shoots him after his plans backfire from Art's sabotage.

Jack has been shown as resourceful with any weapon. He raids a hardware store and has been shown to wield a knife, chainsaw and even ride a military tank in his final appearance. The Denizens themselves appear to have no real goal in life, and were easily influenced by Jack into assisting his tyrannical plans. They are not evil like Jack, however - just easily influenced. Since his demise, the Denizens have done relatively little but bumble about the house and try, in their own simple, misguided way, to help Art and the others. Unfortunately, their attempts often come off as creepy and disturbing. Art has stated that the Denizens are "legion" most likely a reference to 4chan and the anonymous as the Denizens are themselves anonymous and one.


Phillip. M. Jackson

Mr Jackson portrays himself in Sequential Art as a Hamster who is tended to by his P.A., Helga.

Helga

An exceptionally busty, and deadly, Amazonian woman who is Mr Jackson's personal assistant. She also carries him in her bosom. Helga has yet to deliver a single spoken line.

Crazy Sven

After Art is stranded in what bears a resemblance to the fictional town Royston Vasey, Crazy Sven is sent to pick him up. He takes pay in cash or meat only.

Crazy Boris

To rid the house of the Denizens, Art and Kat decide to wall the basement hallway they come from. Crazy Boris is called to build said wall, which he does by taking the needed bricks from the house's foundations.

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