ENGL 333 Midterm Exam

• Understanding Comics: Setting the Record Straight (Ch.1) is written by Scott McCloud
• Scott McCloud addresses Form vs. Content
• "comics" is a medium, a vessel, which can hold any number of ideas and images
• Comics as an artistic vessel includes writers, artists, trends, genres, styles, subject matter, and themes
• Comics is defined as "juxtaposed pictoral and other images in deliberate sequence"
• The Bayeux Tapestry is an example of one of the earliest comics in history
• Deer 'Tiger's Claw' is another example of one of history's earliest comics
• Deer "Tiger Claw" is a 36' long, brightly coloured painted screenfold
• Will Eisner is a good example of a comic artist who uses whole-page compositions
• Hieroglyphs do not count as comics becuase they represent sounds like letters of the alphabet, they do not represent imagery
• Egyptian paintings count as comics
• Egyptian and Mexican ancient comics are both read in a zig-zag fashion
• The invention of printing made literature accessable to everyone
• Rodolphe Topffer is the father of modern comics
• Rodolphe Topffler's comics were the first to introduce cartooning and panel boarding, and featured the first independent combination of words and pictures seen in Europe
• Comics and cartoons are not the same thing
• Annie Bannatyne is little known outside of winnipeg, born and raised in Red River, well-educated and community-minded, instrumental to the fundraising and founding of the Winnipeg General Hospital
• comic creation is both art and writing while also neither of those things
• In 1869, Annie Bannatyne stepped outside of her gender role and committed a single act of resistence that fired the imagination of a young Louis Riel
• Katherena Vermette wrote "Annie of Red River"
• Annie of Red River discusses issues to come with Canada expanding West
• The article written by Mair is placed in narrative boxes over contradicting imagery to establish irony
• The last two frames of Annie of Red River suggest the moment of inspiration for Louis Riel that is mentioned in the foreword of the comic
• Towards a Conceptual Framework is written by Anders Nilsen
• The intro to "Towards a Conceptual Framework" offers insight to comics as a medium to address serious themes such as death and grief
• According to Anders Nilsen in his comic "Towards a conceptual Framework," understanding individual relationship to the totality of the universe can be done in 4 simple steps: The Cosmic Past, the Geological Past, the Present, and the Future
• According to Anders Nilson's comic, the Cosmic Past is not to scale
• According to Anders Nilsen's comic, the Geological Present is on an evolutionary scale
• According to Ander Nilsen's comic, the future is not to scale
• Freyfaxi is written by Tom Gauld
• Tom Gauld's work is described as visual satire
• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is written by Kate Beaton
• Kate Beaton's comic is a visual memoir or a recollection of past events
• The visuals in Kate Beaton's comic allow her to depict herself as younger , which helps readers picture her setting and situations better instead of if her story were a written memoir
• Kate Beaton's comic is set in 2005 when she is 21 years old
• Kate Beaton's home town is Cape Breton, Novia Scotia
• "A deep love for home, and the knowledge of how frequently we have to leave it to find work somewhere else" is part of internal and conflict of the community
• "I learn that I can have opportunity or I can have home. I cannot have both, and either will always hurt" is part of Kate Beaton's internal/conflict of community
• In Kate Beaton's comic, there is an irony that comes from Katie's restaurant coworker when she speaks ill of Newfoundlanders for being cheap, not knowing that Katie is from the maritimes herself
• Kate Beaton uses sudden changes in scenery to suggest changes of time for the reader