Comics are not fruits; they are more akin to vegetables. ‘Fruit' has a clear definition in botany. It is an ‘edible product of a plant or tree, consisting of the seed and its envelope'. Among the most commonly cited definitions of comics, as far as Anglophone comics studies are concerned, is the one proposed by the comics creator and theorist Scott McCloud in the mid-1990s. Decades before the late 1890s, when many date the ‘birth' of US American comics, sequential art from all over the world influenced the cultural landscape. Rather, there are many research questions that remain unprobed when it relates to these areas and their comics traditions. Comics are neither inherently revolutionary or regressive, liberating or oppressive. There can be no doubt that Anglophone comics studies is lopsided in its overall perspective. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.