Exam #1

Question 1

What film represented black people in the media in the early 20th century? What most prominent African American filmmaker responds to that film often?

Answer 1

“Birth of a Nation” was the film and Spike Lee is the filmmaker

Question 2

What approach to racism did many African Americans make that kept them from pursuing the comic book industry early on?

Answer 2

They thought of comic books as something playful and fun and didn’t want to pursue incorporating race into the industry because they thought that the issue of racism wouldn’t be taken seriously

Question 3

What are the five core issues central to debates about diversity or critiques of representation?

Answer 3

1. Kinds of representation
2. Amount of representation
3. Cultural Appropriation
4. Identity of Creaptors or Principle Figures
5. Quikty of representation

Question 4

The most famous test for assess g the absence and quality of women in popular culture production

Answer 4

The Bechdel- Wallace Test
Consists of: has at least 2 women in it
- they talk to each other
- talk about something besides a man

Question 5

Who was the first black character in mainstream comics?

Answer 5

Black Panter

Question 6

Who was the first African American in mainstream comics?

Answer 6

Black Falcon

Question 7

Who was the first black female in comics?

Answer 7

Storm

Question 8

Who was the first black comic to lead a series for marvel comics?

Answer 8

Luke Cage

Question 9

Who was the first black comic to lead a series for dc comics?

Answer 9

Black Lightning

Question 10

What’s one of the crucial, action related questions that comic book artists must constantly creatively address?

Answer 10

Dramatic Action

Question 11

Wjats the key reason why comic books become such a collaborative individual products, that is, why do multiple people contribute to one issue?

Answer 11

Because there usually contains a writer, penciler, and colorist

Question 12

Why do comic book writers get more attention than visual artist in comic books?

Answer 12

If you’re a writer your name will spread more for “writing the story” and you gain more recognition. Also, society values the writers more than visual artists especially in the comic book industry.

Question 13

What was the major, positive story concerning diversity, esp women and people of color in 2014?

Answer 13

More conversations began to arise surrounding the issue of cultural appropriation

Question 14

What had changed concerning the visual representation of Storm in 2014?

Answer 14

She began to be less sexualized

Question 15

What’s storms real name?

Answer 15

Ororo Monroe

Question 16

Why does the man in Santa Marco refuse to call storm by the name storm?

Answer 16

Because he refuses to reference mutants names

Question 17

According to storm mutants in training see given the____ and not a mission

Answer 17

They’re given the tools to enhance and learn about their own abilities

Question 18

Why does Suncorp want to relocate the village?

Answer 18

Because they want to place a hotel there

Question 19

Why does Catalyst Prime deserve special recognition? Who was the visionary editor?

Answer 19

-Series include more creative and diverse creators compared to other series
- Joesph Illige

Question 20

In two words what makes Noble#1 compelling to viewer readers?

Answer 20

The art and action sequences in the comics
- dramatic action

Question 21

What background art was used in noble #1? What makes it noticeable?

Answer 21

African art was dedicated in the background

Question 22

With the depiction of woman in comics, what’s unusual about the last scene in noble#1?

Answer 22

The wife is going to go save her husband

Question 23

What are some challenges of producing “new” comics that appeal to reader?

Answer 23

1. Familiar superheros
2. Fitles produced by familiar companies
3. Title produced by familiar writers & artists
4. There’s tremendous competition

Question 24

What is done in Noble #2 to ensure a variety of different kinds of people are represented?

Answer 24

The wife traveled to a different country and she could also speak a different language. (Spanish)
- showed multiple different people of different skin color

Question 25

What’s the use of the technique in Noble#2 where there are multiple scenes happening at once?

Answer 25

Multithreading

Question 26

What form did comic books first come in? What was the first one created called?

Answer 26

Comic strips
The Yellow Kid

Question 27

What was the first collection of comics called?

Answer 27

The Funnies

Question 28

What was the first modern comic book published called?

Answer 28

Famous Funnies #1

Question 29

What were “Pulp” heroes?

Answer 29

Inexpensive publication that were popular in the 1800s & 1900s that later influenced comic book characters

Question 30

What was SC comics originally known as?

Answer 30

Action comics

Question 31

When did superhero comics decline and why?

Answer 31

After WW2 crime and Horror comics became more popular

Question 32

What was the CCA rules?

Answer 32

-Had to follow the rules of the government in order to publish and comics
- good always triumphs evil
- no violence

Question 33

When was the silver age of comics?

Answer 33

When superhero comics began to have a resurgence in the 50s-60s

Question 34

When did diverse characters start being shown?

Answer 34

The 70s

Question 35

Who’s the penciler, who’s the inker?

Answer 35

Penciler: artist who draws the art
Inker: fills in work and does shading

Question 36

What 4 colors were used before digital coloring?

Answer 36

-yellow
-blue
-red
- black

Question 37

What is process color printing?

Answer 37

When the comics were colored using dots and 4 colors, the closer the dots the more prominent the colors

Question 38

Separate? What happened to them?

Answer 38

Their job was to interpret the color guides created by the colorist, breaking down what to color parts of the page
- lost jobs digital printer was created, workers referred to as “little old ladies”

Question 39

What was the comic the was first done digitally?

Answer 39

Akira

Question 40

What was disturbing about how wonder woman was depicted?

Answer 40

She was tied up multiple times by men with sexist comments, also a scene where she is forced to be search wo consent while in is in a bath robe

Question 41

What was the first ever zombie movie?

Answer 41

Living dead