Understanding Comics

"Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer."

THIS DEFINITION BELONGS TO:

• Scott McCloud

• Matt Groening

• Will Eisner

• Stan Lee

Where does McCloud say the real action of comics takes place?

• in the brain

• in the muscles

• in the gutter

• in the ether

Which of the following does this sentence apply to? "Amplification through simplification... If who I am matters less, maybe what I say will matter more. This is the theory anyway."

• Cartooning

• Stenciling

• Penciling

• Masking

What master comics artist coined the term: Sequential Art?

• Scott McCloud

• Matt Groening

• Will Eisner

• Garry Smith

For McCloud, a(n) ____________ is any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea

• Non-visual awareness in inanimate objects

• Masking

• Pictures

• "Reverse masking"

• Icon

Observing the parts but perceiving the whole. Also called "the grammar of comics."

• Icon

• Closure

• Gutter

• Comic Vocabulary

At one time _________ received the same criticism and skepticism that McCloud notes comics have recently received.

• Music

• Theatre

• Visual Art

• Film

• Video

where words and pictures go hand in hand to convey an idea that neither could convey alone. CHP 6

• panel

• bleed

• backgrounds

• synaesthetics

• word/picture combination-interdependent

In the world of comics ________________ and __________________ are the same.

• frames, space

• space, length

• time, space

• time, life

A way to represent the invisible (breaths, love, dizziness, etc.)

• panel

• bleed

• motion lines

• synaesthetics

• symbolic lines