Layout
A term that describes the way some images draw more attention than other.
What is Graphic weight?
These enclose dialogue and come from a specific speaker's mouth.
What is a Speech balloons?
This type of "shot" in a graphic novel shows a character from the waist up, often used during dialogue to capture facial expressions and gestures.
What is a medium shot?
This graphic novel term refers to visual symbols like speed lines or movement blurs that show action.
What are motion lines?
This artistic element in graphic novels includes the thickness, texture, and energy of the lines used to draw characters and scenes, often conveying mood or emotion.
What is line work?
A distinct segment of the comic.
What is a Panel?
Boxes containing a variety of text elements.
What is a Caption?
This “shot” shows a subject from head to toe and is commonly used to establish a character’s full body and posture.
What is a full shot?
These are non-verbal symbols like skulls, lightbulbs, or sweat drops used to express emotion or action.
What are emotive icons?
Provides additional, subtextual information.
What is Background?
Speech between characters
Used to highlight emotional intensity, this type of shot zooms in tightly on a character’s face.
What is a close up?
This type of panel has no border and is often used to create a dreamlike or timeless feeling.
What is a borderless panel?
The spaces between framed panels.
What is the Gutter?
A method of drawing attention to text.
What is Special-effects lettering?
This wide-angle shot shows a large view of a setting or landscape, often used to establish location.
What is a long shot?
This kind of panel transition shows a change in time or place between scenes, often requiring readers to infer what happened in the gap.
What is a scene-to-scene transition?
The panel closest to the viewer.
What is Foreground?
Onomatopoeia is used to represent this.
This dramatic shot angle looks up at the subject to make them appear powerful or threatening.
What is a low-angle shot?
This narrative voice appears in captions and is not spoken by characters; it guides the reader through the story.
What is a narrator?