Graphic Novel Form

Question 1

Baetens and Fray: paratext

Answer 1

Greatest difference between GN and novel is “continuity between the text and paratext” in GN

Question 2

Baetens and Fray: politcal narratives

Answer 2

“The directness of drawn images and small, localized narratives…breaks down seemingly unfathomable and complex political catastrophes into more manageable and human forms”

Question 3

Baetens and Fray: appropriation

Answer 3

“appropriation as suggestive and powerful visual tactic”

Question 4

Baetens and Fray: social history

Answer 4

“gender-balanced social history from below”

Question 5

Baetens and Fray: dualism

Answer 5

“dualism of narrative content…[works on] multiple equally valid narrative levels”

Question 6

McGrath

Answer 6

Chief advantage and disadvantage of GNs is that they cannot achieve realism

Question 7

Martin

Answer 7

‘Negotiates the boundaries between high and low culture…increasing interpenetration” between the two
Interplay between the “personal and political” in GN draws it towards societal issues

Question 8

Anderson

Answer 8

Comic book association with childhood means ‘our hard-wired inference is innocence’ - GNs can effectively subvert this

Question 9

Lander

Answer 9

Idea of ‘closure’ - GNs make readers infer more than traditional novels

Question 10

McCloud

Answer 10

Types of frame transition

Types of word/picture interaction

Question 11

Theiss

Answer 11

GNs offer a “freeze frame” of history - opening it up to interpretation

Question 12

Andre Breton

Answer 12

Surrealist who advocated removal of description from story as felt it was ignored

GNs can be seen to respond to this criticism - forcing focus on setting, making setting/context more important

Question 13

Crow

Answer 13

Pop-Art movement introduced comic book to “the aegis of fine art”

Question 14

Baetens: Pop-Art

Answer 14

“everyday subjects…implicitly made part of an expanded world of art…became statements on society”