Graphic Novel Elements Flashcards
visual rhetoric
the how/why visual images communicate meaning
looking at and understanding an image
visual literacy
involves all the processes of knowing and responding to a visual image, as well as all the thought that might go into constructing or manipulating an image
responding to an image and changing it to convey emotion
cartoon
an approach or style of picture making
abstracted and simplified images
comics
the medium through which cartoons are employed
graphic narrative
a narrative work in the medium of comics which combines the written word with imagery of film and art
embedded within are expressionism and synesthetics
influences of modern literature on graphic narrative
fragmentation, experimentation with form, implied themes in which one mentally constructs a continuous undefined reality
expressionism
presents the world from subjective perspective
a radical distortion of reality for emotional affect
evokes moods and ideas
synesthetics
senses connected in art
literature- connects one sense to another sense
graphic novel- connects emotions and sense to artistic portrayals
significance of black and white cartoons
participation of reader is essential
abstraction of images allows us to relate more with them
visual iconography
the vocabulary of comics
icon
any image used to represent a person, place, thing, or idea
closure
act of observing the parts but perceiving the whole (grammar of comics)
panel
frame
gutter
space between panels
speech bubble
dialogue
border
bleeds- lack thereof, fading/open from one panel to another
text box
narrative
backgrounds
can be within a panel or a bigger sense of the whole screen itself
transitions
panel to panel, action to action, subject to subject, scene to scene, aspect to aspect, non-sequitur
panel to panel transition
moment to moment, minimal time between panels
action to action transition
panels drawn when actions take place
subject to subject transition
panels drawn from dialogue to dialogue
show perspective of different characters
scene to scene transition
significant differences in time and space
aspect to aspect transition
wandering eye, panorama
shows settings
non-sequitur transition
no logical relationship between panels
metafiction
writing about writing
metafiction in Maus
Spiegelman writes about his process of interviewing his father and trying to understand, interpret the memories
