The Vocabulary of Comics
Blood in the Gutter
Time Frames
Living in line
Show and Tell/A word about color
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What is an icon?
any image used to represent a person, place, thing, or idea
100
Transition is broken into five categories in the book, but they all relate to the different ways to interpret meaning when moving from panel to panel
What is transition?
100
The panel is an indicator that time has passed, (although some panels include multiple events
Why don't the authors of graphic novels draw all of the events into one frame?
100
to show abstract visual information, such as smell, or smoke. These lines will be interpreted differently based on the information surrounding it
Why might an artist choose to draw in soft curvy thin lines?
100
these colors objectify the subject matter, black and white does not
What is one reason that the author of a graphic novel may not use color?
200
Why do Graphic Novel authors simplify the faces of their characters so they seem unrealistic?
to allow a more broad group of people to identify with the character, and to make sure the audience's attention is focused on the message.
200
observing all of the pats of the graphic novel, but interpretting the information as a whole
correctly explain what closure is
200
"motion lines" are icons within panels to show that the characters are in movement
What is a motion line?
200
By making them thicker.
how can a Graphic Novel author make lines seem more severe or scary?
200
blue, yellow red
What are the primary colors?
300
explain why the statement "you are not looking at a pipe?" is actually not a joke?
You are not looking at a literal pipe, you are looking at an image that represents a pipe.
300
in action to action scenes, the reader follows a different action into the next panel, whereas in subject to subject, the subject matter stays the same in each panel.
What is the difference between action to action transition scenes and subject to subject?
300
subjective motion
What is the special Japanese way of showing motion?
300
emotional or sensual
What are the two responses an author of a graphic novel is trying to evoke?
300
True
true or false, entire scenes can be solely about color?
400
Why don't Egyptian Hieroglyphics count as comics?
The images make up an alphabet or language.
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What is Scott McCloud's definition of comics?
Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.
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