The Pardoned One
Fénoir
The Young Lady
Characters
A Comic Studies Reader
100

Who captured Buzzard?

Captain Dhermitte (guy with a big beak)

100

Who are the Yoruba people?

 the people of a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo

100

What is the deal the Priest and the governor make?

One-third of the treasure if Buzzard talks

100

What character has only one ear?

Lavendure

100

The fictive space in which the characters live and act

diegetic space

200

Who has vanished upon NehNeh and Lavendure's return?

Virginia

200

Who does Rapier ask the Yoruba to kill?

Dhermitte (or any white person)

200

Who is the man in stripes that warns the governor and what happened to him?

He is a pardoned pirate and the governor kills him (stabs him)

200

What character said "Don't use it on yourself; kill someone with it"?

Rapier

200

Diegetic space that appears inside and outside the frame

hors champ

300

Who did Lavendure think was chasing him and Evangeline (NehNeh)?

Francois Caron

300

Where is Rapier from, and how do we know?

Yoruba, he speaks the language, Slave says “I’m a Yoruba, like you”

300

Do Raphael and Despentes find a dodo?

No- its virginia

300

What character is drawn having a very rigid/jagged beak?

Dhermitte

300

Non-visual space referred to the virtual supposed space outside the frame

hors cadre

400

What natural disaster does Raphael see at the end of the chapter?

Volcanic Eruption

400

What is the major plant grown in the plantations?

coffee

400

What news does Dennemont give the governor?

they found and burned down a maroon camp

400

Which character has a unibrow?

Robert

400

“hidden” space within the borders of the panel itself

hors champ interne

500

Who does the governor dislike at the meeting?

Robert

500

What is the nickname for Madagascar?

“the great island”

500

Despentes could’ve been a great maroon hunter, instead he was—-

 first rate pickpocket

500

Which character does Robert meet up with in the woods?

Poullard

500

Is the reader's expectation of a consistent diegetic space often correct?

No, it is often wrong