How comics work

Question 1

Did there exist crime strips before the appearance of Dick Traycy?

Answer 1

sometimes, but there were no crime comics

Question 2

What is the Gumps?

Answer 2

A comic strip , treating crime primarily on the level of slapsstick with occassional moments of melodrama.

Question 3

What is Dick Tracy?

Answer 3

a strip about crime and its effects on society.

Question 4

Why was crime an obvious topic for creators of popular culture?

Answer 4

Because of the years of prohibition

Question 5

who wrote secret agent x-9`?

Answer 5

Dashiell Hammett

Question 6

What did Gould see Dick Tracy as ?

Answer 6

a contemporary Sherlock Holmes

Question 7

What shifted in the 1940s

Answer 7

The emphasis shifted to the villains.

Question 8

When wouuld readers be introduced to the villlain?

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Why did gould present the criminals to be ugly?

Answer 9

Because Crime is ugly

Question 10

Are evil-doers just as likely to be attractive?

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

Why is Superman’s role to prevent armageddon?

Answer 11

Because stopping crime is too easy.

Question 12

Did the Joker and two-face start out as ordinary human beings?

Answer 12

Yes,

Question 13

what is the primary motivation of Batmans crime-fighting career?

Answer 13

Revenge

Question 14

were there any super-villains in gotham city before batman?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

what was the comics in the crime does not pay genre far more intrested in

Answer 15

Sensationalizing crime than in eradicating it.

Question 15

When was the decline in readership of superhero books?

Answer 15

after w.w.w.2

Question 15

What became the target of public outrage?

Answer 15

True-crime and horror comics.

Question 16

what were the seduction of the innocent=

Answer 16

a book by dr. Fredric wertham about the crusade against comic books.

Question 17

What happened after a televised senate comimittee hearing about the comic book industry?

Answer 17

the comisc code authhority , as self-censoring organisation were established

Question 18

When did the history of the modern graphic novel begin

Answer 18

1978 with the publication of will eisner’s a contract with god and other stories.

Question 19

What were the grapic novels will eisner produced in 1978-2005 about?

Answer 19

Most of the graphic novels he produced from 1978 until his
death in 2005 were literary adaptations or autobiographical stories; none were crime
stories.

Question 20

What is a picture novel?

Answer 20

These combine the format of the comic books with their fellow GIs during world war 2.

Question 21

who is frank miller?

Answer 21

the publisher of the graphic novel the hard goodbye in 1991

Question 22

What are the key themes in graphic novels?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What are the aristic style in graphic novels

Answer 23

dark atomosphere bloodycrime scenes realistic and unrealistic porttrayels villains often designed to be ugly, good guys designed more attractive show don't tell

Question 24

What are the cultural commentary

Answer 24

corrupt politicians and cities poverty homlessness greedy captialist crime is evil often male antagonists

Question 25

what are the myths about comics?

Answer 25

Comics are for kids comics are all about superheroes comics are just a gateway to real literature

Question 26

Debunk the comics myths

Answer 26

Comics are for everyone Comics are not just about superheroes

Question 27

What is a comic strip

Answer 27

those in garfield, a few panels long

Question 28

what are a comic books?

Answer 28

a couple of dozen plages lon with new issues in a series published on a regular schedule

Question 29

what are digital comics?

Answer 29

a broad category including comic strips or comic books distributed digitally.

Question 30

what are webcomics?

Answer 30

a spesific genre of digital comics usually posted serially

Question 31

what is a graphic novel?

Answer 31

Longh-form comic and either collects previously published comic strips, comic books, digiatal combics or webcomics or present an entierly new story.

Question 32

What are comics with an s?

Answer 32

the form, like prose or film

Question 33

WHat are comics without the s=

Answer 33

to describe something lighthearted or humuorous

Question 33

What is a graphic narrative?

Answer 33

a complete work of either fiction or non-fiction (the line is often blurred)

Question 33

What is A comic with an aritcle in front of it?

Answer 33

a work in the form of comics

Question 33

what are comics

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

who does what in comics?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What are following genres in comics? superhero comics, coming of age, historical comics, graphic biographies, horror comics

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What comic styles are there?

Answer 36

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

Question 37

What does closure mean in comics?

Answer 37

the mental work done by the reader to build a coherent narrative out of a sequence of images.