Understanding Comics Chapters 1 - 3 /Terms Review-VanderVeen

Sequential Art is an all encompassing term that defines comics but does not prohibit genres, method, or the tools used to create comics.

• True

• False

What master comics artist coined the term: Sequential Art?

• Scott McCloud

• Matt Groening

• Will Eisner

• Garry Smith

Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer - THIS DEFINITION BELONGS TO:

• Scott McCloud

• Matt Groening

• Will Eisner

• Garry Smith

Amplification through simplification"... If who I am matters less, maybe what I say will matter more. This is the theory anyway"

• Cartooning

• Stenciling

• Penciling

• Masking

Single panels cartoons are one of the original forms of modern-day comics (Sequential Art): TRUE or FALSE?

• True

• False

"The artform--the medium--known as comics is a vessel which can hold any number of ideas and images." Which of the following are needed in the comic medium?

• Writer and artist

• Trends and genres

• Subject matter and themes

• All the above

• None of the above

Most books about comics began shortly before the turn of the last century.

• True

• False

McCloud writes about the "Thirty-Two Century" old sequential painting found in the Egyptian scribe Menna's tomb. According to the painting, as Menna watches, farmers late in paying their taxes are ___________. Pgs 14 - 15

• Burned by X-Ray vision that is possessed by Menna

• Beaten for their tardiness

• Given one chance to pray for merct and then killed in the name of Ra

• Made as a sacrifice for Osiris

The Bayeux Tapestry is strikingly similar to Comics?

• True

• False

At first glance, Egyptian Hieroglyphics would seem to fit our definition of Comics perfectly but...

• Hieroglyphics' real descendent is Jazz music and not Comics

• Hieroglyphics' real descendent is the written word and not Comics.

• Hieroglyphics' real descendent is military strategy and not Comics.

• Hieroglyphics' real descendent is anthropomorphism and not Comics.