Comics quiz · 10 questions
Panel, bubble or box?
Comics have their own words. The box is a panel, the gap is a gutter, and BOOM is a sound effect. Do you know them all?
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The answers, and why
One box of a comic, with one moment drawn inside it, is called a… Panel. A panel is one box with one moment in it. A page is a row of moments, one after another.
A character says something out loud. Their words go in a… Speech bubble. Spoken words go in a speech bubble, with a little tail pointing at whoever is talking.
A character is thinking, not talking. Their words go in a… Thought bubble. A thought bubble looks like a fluffy cloud, often with little circles leading to the thinker.
A box at the top of a panel says: Later that day… That box is a… Caption box. A caption box is the storyteller's voice: when, where, or what happened in between.
The empty strip between two panels is called the… Gutter. The gutter is the gap between panels. Your mind fills in what happened there.
BOOM! CRASH! SPLAT! Big drawn words for a noise are called… Sound effects. Sound effects are noises drawn as words, often big, bold and right in the picture.
The little point on a speech bubble shows who is talking. It is called the… Tail. The tail points at the speaker, so you know whose words they are.
Somebody shouts. What might their speech bubble look like? Spiky, with big letters. A shout often gets a spiky bubble and big, bold letters, so you can almost hear it.
A whole page that is one big picture is called a… Splash page. A splash page is one giant picture, often for the most exciting moment.
In a comic that reads left to right, which panel do you read first? The top left one. Start at the top left, read across the row, then go down to the next row, like the words on this page.
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