Sound effects or onomatopoeia are words without bubbles that mimic sounds. In some comics, where speech balloons are not used, the captions provide the reader with text about what is happening in the images. In a caption, words appear in a box separated from the rest of the panel or page, usually to give voice to a narrator, but sometimes used for the characters' thoughts or dialogue. Emotions can be expressed by the shape of the balloon-spiked balloons can indicate shouting, and "dripping" balloons can indicate sarcasm. A thought balloon contains copy expressing a character's unvoiced thoughts, usually shaped like a cloud, with bubbles as a pointer. Its shape came to convey meaning as well. In early renderings, word balloons were no more than ribbons emanating from their speakers' mouths, but as it evolved and became more sophisticated, it became a more expressive device. The word balloon bridges the gap between word and image-"the word made image", as expressed by Pierre Fresnault-Druelle. The indicator from the balloon that points at the speaker is called a pointer or tail. Word balloon Ī speech/word/dialogue balloon or speech/word/dialogue bubble is a speech indicator, containing the characters' dialogue. The character speaking is indicated by the tail of the balloon. The characters' dialogue is given through speech balloons. Elements Ī caption (the yellow box) gives the narrator a voice. The two-page spread or double-page spread is the most common, but there are spreads that span more pages, often by making use of a foldout (or gatefold).
Spread Ī spread is an image that spans more than one page. Often designed as a decorative unit, its purpose is to capture the reader's attention, and can be used to establish time, place and mood. Splash Ī splash or splash page is a large, often full-page illustration which opens and introduces a story. Vertical gutters can be made thinner than horizontal gutters in order to encourage the reader to group each row of panels for easier reading. What occurs in a panel may be asynchronous, meaning that not everything that occurs in a single panel necessarily occurs at one time. Panels are used to break up and encapsulate sequences of events in a narrative. The size, shape and style of a panel, as well as the placement of figures and speech balloons inside it, affect the timing or pacing of a story. A page may have one or many panels, and panels are frequently, but not always, surrounded by a border or outline, whose shape can be altered to indicate emotion, tension or flashback sequences. Layout Ī panel (alternatively known as frame or box) is one drawing on a page, and contains a segment of action. Other terms used as synonyms for "comics" are " sequential art", a term coined and popularized by Will Eisner, and graphic novel, which is normally used to denote book-form comics, although this usage is not consistent. " Alternative comics" is a term covering a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the comix movement of the late 1960s/early 1970s. Art Spiegelman in particular has been a proponent of its usage, hoping to highlight the fact that the medium is capable of mature, non-comedic content, as well as to emphasize the hybrid nature of the medium ("co-mix"). " Underground comix" is a term first popularized by cartoonists in the underground comix movement of the 1960s and 1970s in an attempt to move the word away from its etymological origins.
" Comic" as a singular noun is sometimes used to refer to individual comics periodicals, what are known in North America as " comic books". "Comic" as an adjective also has the meaning of "funny", or as pertaining to comedians, which can cause confusion and is usually avoided in most cases ("comic strip" being a well-entrenched exception). " Comics" is used as a non-count noun, and thus is used with the singular form of a verb, in the way the words "politics" or "economics" are, to refer to the medium, so that one refers to the "comics industry" rather than the "comic industry". Much of the terminology in English is under dispute, so this page will list and describe the most common terms used in comics. Some several attempts have been made to formalize and define the terminology of comics by authors such as Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, R. Comics has developed specialized terminology.
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