Identify the proper category of word/picture combination.
What is Word-Specific
100
What is the "secret" of drawing great backgrounds?
What is don't think of them as backgrounds, but as environments. The places your characters exist within.
100
When making comics what are the only two tools you can't do without?
What is your mind and your hand.
100
List 2 of the 8 Manga storytelling techniques
What is
1) Iconic Characters
2) Sense of Place
3) Wordless Panels
4) Subjective Motion
5) Genre Maturity
6) Broad Variety of Character Designs
7) Small Real World Details
8) Emotionally Expressive Effects
100
Name four "markets" in which comics can be found.
What is
1) Newspaper Comic Strips
2) Periodical Comic Books
3) Graphic Novels
4) Alternative/Small Press
5) Miscellaneous Print
6) Manga
7) Webcomics
8) Other new media
200
Words and pictures both sending roughly the same message.
What is Duo-Specific
200
So most panels begin their lives as a collection of flat, ____________________
What is 2-D Elements.
200
After the first 2 tools, what are the next 2 tools?
What is a pen and paper.
200
Name two different genres
Answers will vary
Possible answers: Gaming, Relationship, Music, Horror, Comedy, Political, Autobio, Music etc.
200
To find something new to say, and say it with a clear voice, you must use the 5 choices which are...
What is
Moment
Frame
Image
Word
Flow
300
Words and pictures following seemingly different paths without intersecting.
What is parallel
300
What is the first job of perspective?
What is to serve the layout of the page and enhance the story.
300
To achieve added control and flexibility, artists throughout the 20th century turned to a wide array of drawing tools. Name 4 of the classics
What are
1)Swing-arm lamp
2) T-Square
3)Triangle
4) Bristol Board
5)Drafting Table
6)Erasers/Scissors/Tape/Knives
7)Pens/pencils/brushes/markers
8)Black ink & white for corrections
9)Tool Tray
10)Straight Edge ruler
11) Drafting chair
300
Name the 4 tribes of like-minded comics.
What is
1) The Classicists
2) The Animists
3) The Formalists
4) The Iconoclasts
300
Comics itself has always been a
What is blank page
400
Identify the proper category of word/picture combination.
What is Interdependent.
400
Describe your understanding of "minimal style".
Answers will vary.
400
What is the significance of fixed-width or technical pens?
What is it provides the highest level of precision by eliminating line variation entirely, and guaranteeing a smooth consistent line.
400
What are the 4 different categories the tribe artists can be characterized as compatible or incompatible?
What is
Tradition
Revolution
Art
Life
400
How does Scott McCloud describe the Mange and Graphic Novel movement?
That together it would be enough to turn the whole market upside down.
500
Words and pictures working together in some respects while also contributing information independently.
What is Intersecting
500
The expansion of the panel out to the page edges, is known in the print industry as
What is bleed
500
Comics have made a transition from analog to...
What is digital
500
What are Carl Jung's four proposed functions of human thought?
What are
1) Sensation
2) Intuition
3) Thinking
4) Feeling
500
Scott McCloud encourages the reader to now go out on their own and take chances. What is one of those chances?
What is
1) Tap into the emotional power of facial expressions
2) Bring words and pictures together to create ideas and sensations
3) Transport people to places they have never dreamed of
4) Whatever passions drive you to create...NOW is your chance