How comics work Flashcards
Did there exist crime strips before the appearance of Dick Traycy?
sometimes, but there were no crime comics
What is the Gumps?
A comic strip , treating crime primarily on the level of slapsstick with occassional moments of melodrama.
What is Dick Tracy?
a strip about crime and its effects on society.
Why was crime an obvious topic for creators of popular culture?
Because of the years of prohibition
who wrote secret agent x-9`?
Dashiell Hammett
What did Gould see Dick Tracy as ?
a contemporary Sherlock Holmes
What shifted in the 1940s
The emphasis shifted to the villains.
When wouuld readers be introduced to the villlain?
Early in the story line, and view the crime as it was being comitted. The rest of the story was the prolonged chase with Tracy in the role as the pursuer.
Why did gould present the criminals to be ugly?
Because Crime is ugly
Are evil-doers just as likely to be attractive?
Yes
Why is Superman’s role to prevent armageddon?
Because stopping crime is too easy.
Did the Joker and two-face start out as ordinary human beings?
Yes,
what is the primary motivation of Batmans crime-fighting career?
Revenge
were there any super-villains in gotham city before batman?
no
what was the comics in the crime does not pay genre far more intrested in
Sensationalizing crime than in eradicating it.
When was the decline in readership of superhero books?
after w.w.w.2
What became the target of public outrage?
True-crime and horror comics.
what were the seduction of the innocent=
a book by dr. Fredric wertham about the crusade against comic books.
What happened after a televised senate comimittee hearing about the comic book industry?
the comisc code authhority , as self-censoring organisation were established
When did the history of the modern graphic novel begin
1978 with the publication of will eisner’s a contract with god and other stories.
What were the grapic novels will eisner produced in 1978-2005 about?
Most of the graphic novels he produced from 1978 until his
death in 2005 were literary adaptations or autobiographical stories; none were crime
stories.
What is a picture novel?
These combine the format of the comic books with their fellow GIs during world war 2.
who is frank miller?
the publisher of the graphic novel the hard goodbye in 1991
What are the key themes in graphic novels?
Crime figthing and mystery
moral driven stories and crime solving
justice driven
dark gritty tone
criminals, super villains and capitalists
corruption and crime city
good and evil
What are the aristic style in graphic novels
dark atomosphere
bloodycrime scenes
realistic and unrealistic porttrayels
villains often designed to be ugly, good guys designed more attractive
show don’t tell
What are the cultural commentary
corrupt politicians and cities
poverty
homlessness
greedy captialist
crime is evil
often male antagonists
what are the myths about comics?
Comics are for kids
comics are all about superheroes
comics are just a gateway to real literature
Debunk the comics myths
Comics are for everyone
Comics are not just about superheroes
What is a comic strip
those in garfield, a few panels long
what are a comic books?
a couple of dozen plages lon with new issues in a series published on a regular schedule
what are digital comics?
a broad category including comic strips or comic books distributed digitally.
what are webcomics?
a spesific genre of digital comics usually posted serially
what is a graphic novel?
Longh-form comic and either collects previously published comic strips, comic books, digiatal combics or webcomics or present an entierly new story.
What are comics with an s?
the form, like prose or film
WHat are comics without the s=
to describe something lighthearted or humuorous
What is a graphic narrative?
a complete work of either fiction or non-fiction (the line is often blurred)
What is A comic with an aritcle in front of it?
a work in the form of comics
what are comics
Comics is an art form that conveys meaning trugh the combination of text and image and thrugh the juxtaposition of those image-texts in sequence.
who does what in comics?
the writer writes the script
the artist crates the comics in black and white
the letterer fits the dialogue and captions into speech balloons and caption boxes
the colorist adds colour
What are following genres in comics? superhero comics, coming of age, historical comics, graphic biographies, horror comics
superhero comics-individuals with extraordinary abilities fight injustice and save humans
coming of age-focus on a person growinf from adolescense to adulthood
historical comics-draws from the past, combines history with other genres such as war , westen etx.
Graphic biographies- comics about a real person but drawn by other people or person.
horror comics creates feelings of unease and terror
sf-imagine a future or oteh alternative worlds that may be utopian or dystopian
What comic styles are there?
clear line style- creator of tin tin
ratty and rough line style- 1980s
mainstream style tendss toward the naturalistic
mixed media style-combined drawing and digital tecnologies
What does closure mean in comics?
the mental work done by the reader to build a coherent narrative out of a sequence of images.
