And, wow, I don't think I'm the target audience of this post at all, but I have to say that some of the commentary I'm seeing on what 'comics' means is amazingly English- and US-centric. 'Comics' isn't everyone's word, but it's a pretty common cognate/loan word in a hell of a lot of languages (including Japanese). Sequential Art isn't widely used by any manga or Western comics fanfic writers I know, but it's plenty well known in some fandom corners.