History of Illustration Test 4 (final) 낱말 카드 | Quizlet

What were the different ages of comic books?

Industrial, Platinum, Golden, Silver, Bronze

What were some of the illustrators or books being produced during the Industrial Age of comics?

George Herriman; "Crazy Kat"

What were some of the illustrators or books being produced during the Platinum Age of comics?

Richard Outcault; The Yellow Kid and His New Phonograph

What were some of the illustrators or books being produced during the Golden Age of comics?

Charles Schultz; "Peanuts"

What were some of the illustrators or books being produced during the Silver Age of comics?

Bernie Wrightson; "Tales of the Crypt"

What were some of the illustrators or books being produced during the Bronze Age of comics?

Jean Giraud; "Moebius"

Who's the inventor of the comic strip?

Rodolphe Topffer

Name one of Rodolphe Topffer's comics.

History of Monsieur Jabot

What's the importance of Outcalt's the Yellow Kid?

-First commercialized comic character in history

-Merchandizing

-Integrated sequential comics with speech balloons

Who's one of the founding fathers of newspaper comics and animated cartoons?

Windsor McCay

What is impressive about Little Nemo in Slumberland?

-It was praised as a high form of art

-It was experimental with color, perspective, and layout

Who created Tintin? Who did this start the Belgian Comic movement?

Hergé; the first successful comic series in Belgium

What was thefirst Tintin story? This story was known for Anti-Russian propaganda.

"Tintin and the Land of Soviets"

What is Ligne Claire?

clear line (used to create clean and distinct look)

What is syndicated licensing?

The distribution of copyrighted material across geographic markets (Newspaper comic strip)

What German illustrator influenced the dancing hippo sequence in Fantasia? He was briefly known for his work in Jugend and the publishing of his sketchbooks.

Heinrich Kley

Who introduced the new technique of chiaroscuro in newspaper comics? What two comic strips is he known for?

Hal Foster; Tarzan & Prince Valiant

What comic strip redefined the science fiction genre. (This artist was a contemporary to Hal Foster.)

Flash Gordon

Who is the Father of the adventure comic strip?

Hal Foster

What is the first syndicated adventure comic strip?

Tarzan - originally a book series

What was the predecessor to the pamphlet-style comic books?

The Funnies

What comic era was the superhero archetype created?

Golden Age

Did comic book companies own the characters during the Golden, Silver, Bronze, andModern Era?

The creators owned the characters until they were bought by the publishers

Why were superhero comics declining in the end of the Golden Age?

The Comic Code Authority was pressuring businesses to censor the comics

Name a few newspaper comics strips during Golden Age.

- Pogo

- Peanuts

- Donald Duck

- Eerie

- Creepy

-Who is the grandmaster of Disney Comics? He was known as the good duck artist.

Carl Barks

How did Peanuts by Charles Schultz begin?

Lil Folks

What type of comics became popular at the end of the Golden Age? Name a title.

Horror and Sci-fi; MAD Magazine or Tales from the Crypt

What was the comics code authority? How did this help superhero comics? Who helped lead this movement?

The CCA created a rating system to decide what was appropriate for children; it eliminated vulgarity and caused a resurgence of superheroes

-Fredrick Werthan

What comics company was destroyed by the Comics Code Authority? What title didthis company release as a magazine to bypass censorship?

EC Comics; Mad Magazine

What other comics were released as magazines during this time to bypass censorship?

- Eerie

- Creepy

What started the silver age of comics?

DC's reintroduction of superheroes

What was marvel comics publishing name before it became known as Marvel?

Timely Comics

What was Marvel comics first superhero comic drawn by Jack Kirby and written by Stan Lee?

The Fantastic Four

What is the marvel method of writing comics?

Jack Kirby would draw the entire comic and then the writer would make up a story based off of the art

Who's considered the King of Comics and the William Blake of comics? Name two superheroes that he invented?

Jack Kirby; The Fantastic Four & Spiderman

What other superheroes were developed by Marvel in the silver age?

- Spiderman

- Daredevil

- The Fantastic Four

- Doctor Strange

What French artist lived a double professional life under two pen names? He created western comics and surreal sci-fi/fantasy comics with the pen names.

- Jean Giraud (Moebius)

- one of the most innovative comic artists

- at the forefront of experimental comics

What is Metal Hurlant?

French science fiction anthology magazine

What superheroes's girlfriend death that defined this comic era?

Spiderman

Who is the father of contemporary manga? Name one character that he invented.

- Osama Tezuka

- Kimba the White Lion

What is the Bronze Age of comics known for? What historical events during this time may have influenced their themes? (Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Vietnam War, etc.)

- Darker plots

- influenced by the Civil Rights Movement

- deconstruction of the superhero

What Manga/Anime artist is known for Domu and Akira?

Katsuhiro Otomo

What animator created Nausica? What medium did he use in the manga?

Hayao Miyazaki, pencil and watercolor

What two deconstructed superhero comic titles ended the Bronze Age and started the Modern/Dark Age of Comics?

- The Dark Knight Returns- Watchmen

What themes did the Modern Age of comics dwell on? What was one newspaper strip that was more lighthearted and warming compared to the typical modern comics during this time?

Darker themes, deconstruction of superheroes, brooding fascism, violence, sex, and drugs

- Calvin and Hobbes

What was the first graphic novel?

It Rhymes with Lust

What was the first graphic novel/comic to win the Pulitzer Prize?

Maus

What was regionalism? How did this affect children's books? What historical events were happening during this time? (Great Depression)

- Works that describe a distinctive local geography and culture

- Cheaper color printing and idealized country life

- Great Depression

Who contributed to the integration of images with texts on a spread? How did she use regionalism?

- Wanda Gag

- She idealized rural America in the middle of the Great Depression

Name two other children's books that used regionalism as a style.

- The Little Engine that Could

- Little House on the Prairie

Name two books by Garth Williams.

- Stuart Little

- Charlotte's Web

How did Garth Williams' education in sculpture influence his work?

Used his sculptures as reference for his illustrations

Explain Maurice Sendak's life. Explain Sendak's process in developing Where the Wild Things Are.

- Born in 1928 to Polish, Jewish Parents

- Childhood was a nightmare to him- Created Toys

- Got a job creating store windows which helped get him jobs in children's books

- "Where the Wild Things Are" Started as Where the Wild Horses Are

- First book he illustrated and wrote

- Created dummies of the book while also illustrating 20 other books

- Created monsters off of King Kong and Mickey Mouse

- Spread size gets bigger as Max's imagination grows and shrinks as he heads home

How did Maurice Sendak approach each children's books stylistically?

- He created everyone with a different style

What is special about Good Night Moon?

-Color

-Messy lines

-On-purpose wrong perspective

Who illustrated Harold and the Purple Crayon? What comic series did Crockett Johnson illustrate before Harold?

Crockett Johnson; illustrated Barnaby

Who illustrated Anno's Journey? How would you describe the technique and look of that book?

Mitsumasa Anno;

- Goes to actual areas and sketches from location

- Uses photos in case he needs it

- Countryside illustrations

- No plot just unnecessary plot throughout

How does Surrealism and sculpture influence Chris Van Allsburg's children's books?

blend surreal elements with a realistic illustration style influenced by his sculpture background

What is David Weisner's process of making a book?

- sketches

- storyboard

- dummy book

- sculpting references

- watercolor drawings

Explain the history of the Little Golden books.

- Goal was to make children's books affordable

- Started with 12 and built from there

- 70 years before they were doing gift books

- Competes with more expensive books

Who illustrated Poky Little Puppy? Where did he work before working on children's books?

- Tenggren

- Disney

What couple worked for the Little Golden Books and won a Caldecot. Before the couple met, they both worked in animation.

Alice and Martin Provenson

Explain Theodore Geisel's life. How did his events lead up to his children's books. Explain some of his failures.

- Contributed the publication The Jack-O-Lantern

- Got in trouble for drinking and on probation

- Eventually changed name to Doctor Seuss

- Met wife at Oxford University

- Does work for Judge Magazine

- Gets hired to make Propaganda for War causes in WWII

- Gets hired for Flit Propaganda (This is more his adult type of work)

- And to Think I saw It on Mulberry Street (His First children's book)

- The Cat in the Hat (Goal was to teach new words, but have imaginative illustrations Promotion of Literacy)

-Explain Eric Carle's approach to illustrating. Why does his graphic design background influence his approach?

- Uses tissue paper create abstract paintings

- use of typesetting background influenced his work

What is the first science fiction novel?

- Frankenstein

What are penny bloods?

- Precursor to pulp novels

- Gory, violent, adventuresome

What are penny dreadfuls?

- Penny bloods republished for younger audiences as penny dreadfuls

What fantasy book did William Morris write and Walter Crane illustrate?

- The Glittering Plane

Who was the first illustrator for War of the Worlds?

- Warrick Goble

What pen and ink illustrator has been called the greatest American pen and ink artist. He illustrated Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

- Joseph Clement Coll

What are Dime Novels?

- more westernized American versions of penny bloods and penny dreadfuls

What are 20th century pulps?

- sci-fi/horror magazines (spicy, amazing, fantastic, etc, stories)

What illustrator was known for reinventing Edgar Rice Burroughs and Conan for the paperbacks in the 60s.

- Frank Frazetta