Anatomy of a Comic
The formal name for the various boxes artists use to depict scenes in comics.
Panels
Comics are made only for children.
False
An Artform that uses images and words to tell a story.
Comics
A rich orphan dresses up and runs around the city fighting crime.
Batman
What we call the bubbles that contain dialogue in comics.
Speech bubbles
Comics MUST have dialogue.
False
Any image used to represent a person, place, thing, or idea
Icon
A little boy and his pet tiger go on adventures.
Calvin and Hobbes
The name for a word that represents a sound (ex: Boom! Swish! Hiss!)
Onomatopoeia
Humans have used sequential art to tell stories for hundreds of years.
True
What we call it what stuff happens between the panels.
Blood in the gutter
Diana fights crime with a lasso and bulletproof bracelets.
Wonder Woman
The space in between the boxes artists use to depict scenes in comics.
Gutter
Comics are a genre.
False
(BONUS: what are they?)
_____ are the ultimate abstraction
Words
A man wakes up from a coma and finds the world overrun with zombies.
The Walking Dead
The name for symbols artists use to convey emotions (ex: a sweat drop to indicate anxiety or nervousness)
emanata
Copyright laws protecting comics were created in the 1700s.
True
The meaning is fixed and absolute.
The appearance does not affect the meaning because they represent invisible ideas.
Non-pictorial icons
A college student goes on a bad first date, acquires a taste for human flesh, and obtains inhuman powers.
Tokyo Ghoul