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Comic Book Art

Students are tasked to write a short story, dialogue and develop a comic book/strip.
Vocabulary
Juxtapose – to place close together or side by side.
Comics – the phenomenon of juxtaposing images in a sequence
Industrial process – comics are created as a collaborative product with the task of developing comics divided between writer, artist, inker, etc (like an assembly line).
Artisan process – comics are created by an individual cartoonist who does all the creative work (drawing, writing, etc).
Simple narrative – the story revolves around a problem and ends with the resolution of that problem (like a children’s book).
Complex narrative – the main plot is extended by back story, character development, and ongoing subplots (like Harry Potter)
Synecdoche – using a part to represent a whole.
Sequence metaphor – two juxtaposed images that together create a meaning not present in either image alone.  
Splash page – a full page panel, usually at or near the beginning of a comics narrative and used to establish the situation in which a story begins
Chiaroscuro – a stark contrast of light and dark to funnel attention to a particular point in a panel.
Onomatopoeia– a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.


Resources
Templates
comicbooktemplate1.docx

comicbooktemplate2.docx






Other Artists of interest

Roy Lichtenstein

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  • Home
  • Welcome Letters
  • 6th grade Art
    • 6th contour
    • 6th Perspective
    • 6th Pos/Neg Designs
    • 6th Watercolor
    • 6th Clay
    • 6th Paper Mache
    • 6th Weaving
    • 6th Calligrams
    • 6th Color Wheel/Collage
  • 7th grade Art
    • 7th Contour
    • 7th Perspective
    • 7th Tessellations
    • 7th Clay
    • 7th junk Sculpture
    • 7th Silhouettes
    • 7th paper mache Mask
    • 7th watercolor poem illustration
    • 7thgradekandinsky
    • 7th Torn Paper Self-Portrait
  • 8th grade Art
    • 8th Observational Drawing
    • 8th Art History Project
    • 8th Water Color Flowers
    • 8th Comic Art
    • 8th Clay Coil Pots
    • 8th Stamp Design
    • 8th Paper Mache
    • 8th Radial Design
  • Contact Information
  • Semester Test
  • Retake Policy Form
  • Contests