Origin Stories
Superheroes are beloved, admired, and inspire people
What is: why do we care about superheroes?
Create an image in the minds of readers through the use of icons, colors, and different mediums
What do good artists do?
Heroes with powers and abilities beyond those of most mortals
Who are superheroes?
Space between individual panels
What are gutters?
A flash forward or a flashback
What are cuts?
Each character contains elements that ring psychologically "true" or symbolize something that resonates with his/her audience
What is: why do we care?
Image that runs all the way out to the edge of the page
What are bleeds?
Explains how superheroes came to be
Who are born and who are made?
Juxtaposed pictoral to other images in a deliberate sequence intended to convey information and produce an aesthetic response
What are comics?
Encompasses a range of forms of comic book images
What are graphic narratives?
Inspired people who are going through hard times because of his ability to transform his parents' senseless murders into a purpose-driven life
Who is Batman or Bruce Wayne?
Multiple things happen that make static visual images come alive: give sense of scene or chaos and show elapsed time/movements of time (like a movie)
What are sounds?
Images are presented in a juxtaposed order or sequence
What are panels?
Usually square or rectangular and contain narration
What are captions?
Rectangular or square but can be any shape/change of color (how artists want readers to feel)
What are border?
We can relate; we see ourselves in their characters, their dilemmas, their transformations
What is: why we care about superheroes?
Read from left to right and top to bottom
What is: how do you read a comic book?
Is considered a complex art to comment on what is going on or to see a scene more clearly
What is lettering? (ex: ellipses and sound effects created through lettering)
Character is narrating his or her own story
What is an internal monologue?
the term to refer to images is this
What are icons?
Explains who someone is and what made the person that way, what the person cares about and why.
What is an origin story?
Can widen or tighten
Can signify jumps in time too
What are gutters?
Panels are inside other panels
What are insets?
Fills the entire page
What is a splash?
How words are included at times
What are speech (or thought) balloons?