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".
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