AY Honors/Comics

Comics
Arts, Crafts and Hobbies
Skill Level 123
Approval authority South American Division	Year of Introduction 2012
See also Artisan Master Award

• Overview
• Requirements
• Answer Key
• Lesson Plans

AY Honors/Comics/Overview

The most challenging requirement of this honor is probably this:

5. Explain and draw examples made by you about the following:

a. Preproduction, production, postproduction

b. Composition: page layout, frame, scene, narrative adequacy

c. Graphic text elements: reminders, bubbles, onomatopoeia, lettering, typography

d. Finalization: traditional, special treatment, mixed techniques

1. Write a story about the history of comics, containing its main historical facts, characteristics and characters, explaining why it is considered the Ninth Art.

2. What is a comic?

3. Describe how the script of a comic is made, citing and explaining what the steps and techniques are.

4. Prepare an image gallery showing at least 5 different studies and/or strokes of the anatomy of characters. Choose one of them to present a number of different positions drawn by you, using male and female characters.

5. Explain and draw examples made by you about the following:

a. Preproduction, production, postproduction

b. Composition: page layout, frame, scene, narrative adequacy

c. Graphic text elements: reminders, bubbles, onomatopoeia, lettering, typography

d. Finalization: traditional, special treatment, mixed techniques

6. Create a character that is one of the 12 disciples and write a comic of at least 30 frames about his missionary journey.

7. Show a comic telling the story of the magazine Mis Amigos [My Friends] (or equivalent) and put the name of the author, characters and other relevant information.

8. Draw a comic about a fun event in your club or unit.

9. Create a cover with color in size A3, in comic language, for the missionary book of the year.

Edit Answer Key

1

Write a story about the history of comics, containing its main historical facts, characteristics and characters, explaining why it is considered the Ninth Art.

2

What is a comic?

3

Describe how the script of a comic is made, citing and explaining what the steps and techniques are.

4

Prepare an image gallery showing at least 5 different studies and/or strokes of the anatomy of characters. Choose one of them to present a number of different positions drawn by you, using male and female characters.

5

Explain and draw examples made by you about the following:

5a

Preproduction, production, postproduction

5b

Composition: page layout, frame, scene, narrative adequacy

5c

Graphic text elements: reminders, bubbles, onomatopoeia, lettering, typography

5d

Finalization: traditional, special treatment, mixed techniques

6

Create a character that is one of the 12 disciples and write a comic of at least 30 frames about his missionary journey.

7

Show a comic telling the story of the magazine Mis Amigos [My Friends] (or equivalent) and put the name of the author, characters and other relevant information.

8

Draw a comic about a fun event in your club or unit.

9

Create a cover with color in size A3, in comic language, for the missionary book of the year.

References

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