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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are comic book artists most challenged?

2. What other method requires production of a paperboard with colors added to transparent overlays?

3. What does Eisner use as an example to stress the value and dignity of work and whet interest and curiosity?

4. What is the intermediate mock up that allows editor, writer, and artist to review the project called in comics?

5. When Eisner shows a segment of script in which an escaping fugitive falls down a manhole, how does he first show it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has technology challenged the individuality of artists?

2. Why should an artist read short stories?

3. Which works are generally entertainment-oriented, and why?

4. Why is teamwork often demanded by publishers?

5. How can the artist successfully convey an image of the human body?

6. Explain why comic writers first create a written script of their idea and story/plot, including narrative and dialog (balloons).

7. How are comic book artists most challenged in portraying amorphics?

8. Why are technical skills mandatory for comic book artists?

9. What temptation do artists have to detract from the text?

10. Why are comic book artists frequently hired to produce storyboards for movie scripts and motion pictures?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eisner specifies a very organized procedure for comic writers and artists. Comic writers and artists must follow this procedure together. Discuss the idea and importance of teamwork in comics. Support your claims with two examples taken from any chapter.

Essay Topic 2

Since the artist controls the orientation of the reader/viewer's perspective, the artist functions somewhat like a director of the comic. Eisner goes even further to say that the panel functions as a stage. Discuss three ways in which the panel works as a stage. Use material from Chapter 4 to support your examples.

Essay Topic 3

in Chapter 2, calligraphy is described as an expression of visual symbols that also carry verbal and aural traits. Using three instances of supporting evidence from Chapter 2, explain the visual, verbal, and aural characteristics of calligraphy.

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