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- | ====== Comic Terminology ====== | ||
- | This section breaks down the basic terminology used for comics. | ||
- | ===== Meta-terminology ===== | ||
- | * **Series Title:** This is the title of the series. | ||
- | * **Issue Title:** This is the title for the issue that appears within the series. | ||
- | * **Letter(s) Page:** This is where the author talks about what is happening in the series. | ||
- | * **Cover Image:** Is important to the comic experience. | ||
- | * **Description: | ||
- | * **Page:** The story of a comic is broken down by pages. | ||
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- | * **Panel:** A panel is a framed image (except when it is a **borderless panel**) that appears in sequence on a page. The action of the story is told through these panels. | ||
- | * The following is a list of different types of panels. | ||
- | * **Horizontal panels:** a panel with a landscape orientation (wider than it is tall). Usually two to a row. | ||
- | * **Wide panel:** a single panel that spans the width of the page and makes up a row by itself. | ||
- | * **Vertical panels:** a panel with a portrait orientation (taller than it is wide). Usually 3 to a row. | ||
- | * **Narrow panel:** a vertical panel that is narrower than usual. Usually 4 to a row. | ||
- | * **Tall panel:** a larger vertical panel that spans more than one row. Usually spans two rows, and there will be other panels in the rows, beside the tall panel. | ||
- | * **Square panel:** a panel of equal height and width. Usually two or three to a row. | ||
- | * **Borderless Panel:** Is used to describe a panel that has no borders. | ||
- | * **Insert Panel:** Used to describe panels that float over a **borderless panel** or **splash page**. | ||
- | * **Splash Page:** A page with one image that takes up the entire page. It may have **gutters**, | ||
- | * **Frame:** The frame is the border around the panel. | ||
- | * Sometimes the frame can be an image such as with the following two examples: | ||
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- | * **Gutter:** The space between panels. This may be black, white, a pattern, or something else. | ||
- | * **Tier** is a single row of panels. | ||
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- | ===== Graphic terminology ===== | ||
- | * **Bleed:** Bleed is used to describe an image that goes beyond the border of the page, or panel. | ||
- | * **Motion Lines:** The abstract lines that appear by a person or object to indicate movement. | ||
- | * **Impact Explosion/ | ||
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- | * **Graphic Weight:** A term that describes the way some images draw the eye more than others, creating a definite focus using color and shading in various ways including: | ||
- | * The use of light and dark shades; dark-toned images or high-contrast images draw the eye more than light or low-contrast images do | ||
- | * A pattern or repeated series of marks | ||
- | * Colors that are more brilliant or deeper than others on the page | ||
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