Name that element?
The lines and borders that contain panels.
What is the frame?
In the bottom panel on page 15, this holds the most graphic weight.
What are the bodies/souls/ghosts?
Red is a common symbol of these emotions.
What are anger, power, intensity, strength, love, passion, aggression, and danger? (at least 2)
To show a change in state such as a dream, leaving reality, semi-consciousness, or background sounds.
What is changing the frame?
On pages 17 and 18, the slanted panels/gutters are used to show this.
What is an action sequence?
This element is responsible for enclosing external dialogue and ends in a point.
What is a speech balloon (bubble)?
In the top panel on page 98, the panel has these things in these positions, along with the text, to show conflict between the characters.
What is the teacher in the foreground, the parents in the midground, facing each other as opposing forces?
Blue is a common symbol of these emotions.
What are sadness, peace, confidence, loyalty, hope, protection, and depression. (at least 2)
Giving the same facial expression/body language to multiple characters is often used to do this.
What is to show unity, conformity, groups, or cohesion?
On page 160, these things are in these positions to show self-acceptance and journey.
What are the shoes in the foreground, the characters facing away in the mid/background with footsteps in between them?
An image extending beyond the borders of the panel. (may overlap other panels)
What is a bleed?
In the middle panels on page 132, the author uses this in the illustration to convey suspicion and anxiety.
What are their facial expressions, body language, and movement?
Green is a common symbol of these emotions and things.
What are nature, growth, luck, renewal, youth, jealousy, envy, inexperience, and money. (at least 2)
Having narrow gutters between a series of panels.
What shows something happening quickly?
In the bottom panel on page 181, the author uses this to show the character's feelings/inner thoughts.
What is the color blue to represent sadness, and the only character illustrated with color to show isolation?
The space between frames/panels.
What are gutters?
In the bottom panel on page 89, the text and image work together to show this.
What is the unity of actions being taken by repetition of the image of cars driving north/up, and lack of symmetry showing the chaos and panic of the setting and characters?
Black is a common symbol of these emotions and things.
What are power, formality, elegance, sophistication, wealth, mystery, fear, evil, remorse, grief, and death. (at least 2)
By placing two images in the foreground, parallel or corner-to-corner, can be used to show this.
What is juxtaposition?
On pages 73-75, the Monkey King leaves his reality, which is shown using this technique.
What is bleed, or the lack of frame?
The term referring to the amount of, and position of, contrast in an image.
What is graphic weight?
In the bottom panel of page 29, the author uses these techniques to accomplish this purpose.
What are bleed, lack of gutters, lack of frame, and graphic weight. To show the panels as photos taken by the photographer character?
Purple is a common symbol of these things.
What are royalty, power, luxury, magic, creativity, wisdom, and nobility. (at least 2)
How an author might give or withhold context (description/narration) for a panel.
What is the placement of the captions?
Throughout the novel, Yang uses whole page panels for these purposes.
What is to establish setting, or show emphasis on important events?