Here are the words I've recieved so far. Not all of these terms have been posted on the blog, some have been emailed to me. There's only 50 or so terms here, so we don't have enough for the whole class yet.
Alter ego
Cover art
Super villain
Trade paperback
Splash pages
Sequential art
Underground comics
magick
episodes
mythopoaeia
collector culture
good girl art
comic book death
Bleed
Crossover (intertextuality in Comics)
Covers
Otaku
vertical theory
protagonist
gender barriers
gender boundaries
jewishness
religion
occult
superhero
golden age
supernatural
Graphic
Episode
Sound effect
Splash Balloon
Universe
Fanboy/fangirl
Cameo
Centerfold
The Fourth Wall
Comix
Storyboard
McGuffin - rather like a red herring, an item that doesn't have the
significance one would originally assume.
epic - in relation to comics, rather than, say, Homer. Also defined in
the OED as "characterized by realism and an absence of theatrical devices,"
but often used in contemporary speech to merely mean a long and dramatic
story.
serial/serialize/serialization - whether single issues in a comic digest,
a collection of trade paperbacks, or even hardcover collector's editions,
there's more than likely one in a series of a story.
alter-ego - a big attraction in American superhero comics, how does this
duality shape other genres or nations of origin?
in medias res - overused plot device that many comic artists seem to
love.
censorship - whether for propaganda or to remove excessive violence,
gore, and nudity, both comics and manga with more mature themes deal with
censorship, although perhaps at differing quantities during different
decades.
onomatopoeia/sound effects - seen through many kinds of comics, and can
often lend a different visual ambiance to the scene (such as mentioned in
seminar about Batman: Dark Knight Returns)
Metafiction
Cameos (Past Character/Pop Culture)
comix (independent, non-mainstream comics: i got this term from the internet)
Fantasy
Series (continuity of plot, characters)
Entertainment/Hollywood (connections between comics and the entertainment industry)
Mint Condition
Anti- Hero
Patrick
