Comic Conventions
Stylised, non-pictorial symbols, such as teardrops, question marks, sweat drops, or exclamation points, drawn near a character's head to visually represent emotions, thoughts, or sensations in comics.
What are emanata?
Understandings, thoughts, notions, opinions, views or beliefs.
What are ideas?
The features of language that support meaning (for example, sentence structure, noun group/phrase, vocabulary, punctuation, figurative language, framing, camera angles).
What are language features?
The environment in which a text is responded to or created.
What is context?
Gotham.
What is the setting of Batman No. 1?
Images or panel borders that extend beyond the trimmed edge of the comic page.
What is a bleed?
An idea, concern or argument developed in a text; a recurring element.
What is a theme?
The arrangement of identifiable repeated or corresponding elements in a text.
The group of readers, listeners or viewers that the writer, designer, filmmaker or speaker is addressing.
What is audience?
Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
Who wrote Batman No. 1?
A panel in comics that takes up all or most of the page.
What is a splash panel?
An abstract unit of knowledge used to understand, classify, and make sense of the world.
What is a concept?
The ways in which information is organised in different types of texts (for example, chapter headings, subheadings, tables of contents, indexes and glossaries, overviews, introductory and concluding paragraphs, sequencing, topic sentences, taxonomies, cause and effect)
What are structural features?
The general social, historical and cultural conditions in which a text is responded to and created.
What is context of culture?
Robin the Boy Wonder
Who is Batman's sidekick?
The space between comic panels.
What is a gutter?
Matters of personal or public concern that are in dispute; things which directly or indirectly affect a person or members of a society and are considered to be problems.
What are issues?
The features of a text that contribute to its style.
What are stylistic features?
The specific features of its immediate environment.
What is context of situation?
"The Legend of Batman"
What is the first story in the comic?
The part of a speech balloon that connects the ballooned dialogue to the character in a comic.
What is a speech balloon tail?
A position from which things may be viewed or considered - a viewpoint informed by one or more contexts.
What is a perspective?
An accepted practice that has developed over time and is generally used and understood.
Generic convention
To entertain or provoke thought.
What is the purpose of imaginative texts?
1940
When was Batman No. 1 released?