When I, as a non-native speaker of English who lives in Europe, hear "comics", I think "non-moving pictures telling a story". well, that'll explain how you never heard of "sequential art" before. And there I thought it meant the expression was much less well known than I thought.
Forcing another phrase which isn't very well known and just comes out of the English mindset again to artificially create an umbrella term for comics, manga, manhua and co is imho just as dismissive and patronizing. ... I really don't follow your argument. It's an expression meant to be a neutral, generic description of the medium. That's what makes it great as a name for a category that is meant to encompass all different regional or distribution-network specific expression of the medium. It makes it clear that the specific American tradition of comics isn't meant to be the defining standard of what's put in that category, with manga & whatnots added as a token effort.
But it seems there's no good solution then! One way is dismissive according to me, the other one is dismissive according to you! What shall we do?
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well, that'll explain how you never heard of "sequential art" before. And there I thought it meant the expression was much less well known than I thought.
Forcing another phrase which isn't very well known and just comes out of the English mindset again to artificially create an umbrella term for comics, manga, manhua and co is imho just as dismissive and patronizing.
... I really don't follow your argument. It's an expression meant to be a neutral, generic description of the medium. That's what makes it great as a name for a category that is meant to encompass all different regional or distribution-network specific expression of the medium. It makes it clear that the specific American tradition of comics isn't meant to be the defining standard of what's put in that category, with manga & whatnots added as a token effort.
But it seems there's no good solution then! One way is dismissive according to me, the other one is dismissive according to you! What shall we do?