Graphic Novel Terms

What is a panel?

• The border that surrounds and contains the text.

• When an image goes past the border of the page.

• The box or segment that contains the image and text.

• The heaviness/intensity of a line or block of shading for focus.

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Which is a thought bubble?

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What is a frame?

• The order of elements on the page.

• The border that surrounds and contains the text.

• The heaviness/intensity of a line or block of shading for focus.

• The location of the text.

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Which is a speech bubble?

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What is the gutter?

• When an image goes past the border of the page.

• The box around the images.

• When a draft isn't used because it has errors.

• The space between the panels.

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What is graphic weight?

• The heaviness/intensity of a line or block of shading for focus. The darker/thicker the weight the more important the scene or element.

• The use of prior knowledge to “fill in the gutters” and innately create narrative sequencing in a series of panels.

• The panel or part of a panel that is closest to the viewer.

• Information bubbles or boxes that are generally separate from the rest of the panel or page. Often used to create a voice-over technique to the action in front of us. They are also spaces for soliloquies, personal thoughts, and, occasionally, dialogue.

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What is the definition of a panel that bleeds?

• The blank space between panels.

• The center of a panel – how an author uses this space helps to create tone and mood.

• The border that surrounds and contains the text.

• When an image goes past the border of the page.

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What is the difference between a graphic novel and a comic?

• Graphic novels are longer (a book).

• Graphic novels are serious.

• Comics are always funny.

• Nothing, they are the same.

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The characters and objects in the front of the panel that are usually given the most detail

• special effects lettering

• background

• frame

• foreground

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The image furthest back in panel that gives reader context (most often where action is occurring)

• foreground

• background

• midground

• bleed

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