Skim/ graphic novels

Comics theorist Scott McCloud has defined comics as "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate __________________________."

sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer

Comics are usually seen not to be a genre but a form, a medium, a style, or a category?

A medium

Comics are often structured
with multiple panels in narrative sequence. What is the space between panels called?
The space, the frame, the intermission or the gutter?

The gutter

Readers participate in making meaning through active engagement with images and between panels in comics. This is a work that positions the reader as an ____________________.

agent

Which of these is not one of the effects of bleeding panels in skim? pattern, dissonance, distortion or benediction?

benediction

In black and white, the ideas are
communicated more _______________________.

directly

"The more cartoony a face is..., the more people it
could be said to describe." Is this the principle of universality, abstraction or agency?

Universality

graphic narrative

Narrative work in the medium of comics; narrative is how the story is being told

graphic novel

A graphic novel is a genre in the comics medium; often longer than a comic strip, it is also less inclined to the periodical (although not less inclined to the serial than any fiction)

comics

Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer

panel

each unit of the sequence; panels act as a general indicator that time and space is being divided

frame

a border which encloses a panel (Note: not all panels are framed.)

gutter

space between the panels (stuff happens between panels. Gutter space seems to be empty but it marks the time between one panel and the next)

word balloon

can contain emotion, dialogue, thoughts, or simply sound. their size/ shape can also convey meaning

word box

typically express narrative or establish setting or mood, i.e. not necessarily something someone says

Bleeding panel

partially framed or unframed panels; can have the effect of showing more than one moment in time.

closure

Scott McCloud's term for the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole