Origins of Comics Quiz

•______ are periodicals and often serialized, with story arcs being broken up into regular weekly or monthly issues.

• Comic books (or comics)

• Graphic novels (or graphics)

• Web comics (or webbies)

• Comic strips (or strips)

•A ______ is a sequence of drawings, often cartoon, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

• Shazam!

• comic strip

• comic book

• graphic novel

Draw your favourite comic STRIP character!

•With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as ______.

• comic sans

• stand-up comedians

• web comics

• GLIFS

A _____ _____ is a long-form work of sequential art. This term is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comics scholars and industry professionals.

• graphic design

• comic book

• trade paperback

• graphic novel

Draw a mango!

•The ukiyo-e artist Hokusai popularized this Japanese term for comics and cartooning, in the early 19th century.

• animé

• mango

• manga

• chibi

____ ____ in Slumberland by Winsor McCay was a very popular newspaper comic strip, thanks in part to its elaborately drawn fantasy worlds that made use of linear perspective and surreal juxtapositions.

• Little Nero

• Nettle Memo

• Little Nemo

• Big Turkey

_________ with its signature clear line style, was first serialized in newspaper comics supplements beginning in 1929, and became an icon of Franco-Belgian comics.

• Asterix

• Spidermanman

• Sailor MoonMoon

• The Adventures of TinTin

This sequence is an example of a technique that experienced a revival in the 1920s. What is it?

• Woodcut

• Linocut

• Wood engraving

• Intaglio