Question: Which comic book had success with its first superhero in 1938?
Answer: Action Comics

Question: Which genre of comic books had parents concerned?
Answer: crime and horror

Question: Which group was created after a Senate hearing on comic books content?
Answer: Comics Code Authority

Question: When did super heroes become popular again in comic books?
Answer: 1960s

Question: When did the alternative comics movement begin?
Answer: 1980s

Question: Serialization of comics became less popular when?
Answer: 1980s

Question: How were comics published when serialization became less common?
Answer: as albums

Question: Which small publisher published in formats that were not traditional?
Answer: L'Association

Question: Comics continue to thrive regardless of the decrease in what market?
Answer: print market

Question: What picture books from the 17th century show manga origins?
Answer: toba-e and kibyōshi picture books

Question: What is ukiyo-e an example of?
Answer: woodblock prints

Question: When did comic supplements start showing up in Japan?
Answer: 1890s

Question: Who introduced satirical strips to Japan?
Answer: Western expatriates

Question: When did Jiji Manga debut?
Answer: 1900

Question: Who started the first Japanese comic strip in modern times?
Answer: Rakuten Kitazawa

Question: When did comic strips start appearing in hardback collection volumes?
Answer: 1930s

Question: What comic strip was created by Osamu Tezuka?
Answer: Sazae-san

Question: Where were comic strip stories first serialized?
Answer: magazines

Question: What is considered the start of the modern comics in Japan?
Answer: after World War II

Question: Where do comics usually appear?
Answer: newspapers

Question: Where do serialized comics in Japan typically appear?
Answer: magazines

Question: How often are European serialized comics in magazines?
Answer: monthly or weekly

Question: How often do serialized comics typically appear in Japanese magazines?
Answer: weekly

Question: How long is the typical Japanese comic magazine?
Answer: hundreds of pages

Question: What are bounds volumes of comics called in America?
Answer: graphic novels

Question: What is the name given to Japanese comics volumes?
Answer: tankōbon

Question: What type of work is the word novel generally geared towards?
Answer: fiction

Question: What term can mean a non-fiction piece of a collection of short pieces?
Answer: graphic novels

Question: Where did gag cartoons first make an appearance?
Answer: Europe

Question: When did gag single-panel illustrations become known as cartoons?
Answer: 1843

Question: In which publication was cartoon first used to describe gag single-panel illustrations?
Answer: Punch

Question: What did comics have in the United States because of cultural roots?
Answer: lowbrow reputation

Question: Who thought pop culture was a risk?
Answer: cultural elites

Question: What was thought to be only good for children and those who could not read or write?
Answer: Comics

Question: What is a comic that is as long as a book called?
Answer: graphic novel

Question: Who helped "graphic novel" get public attention?
Answer: Will Eisner

Question: What decade did the term "graphic novel" become well known by the public?
Answer: 1980s

Question: In addition to printed graphic novels in stores, what became popular online?
Answer: webcomics

Question: The popularity of the Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns and what other comic helped popularize "graphic novel" as a term?
Answer: Maus

Question: Who started producing comic strips and theories about them in 1827?
Answer: Rodolphe Töpffer

Question: What century had comics in wide production?
Answer: 19th

Question: What 1925 cartoon made speech bubbles popular?
Answer: Zig et Puce

Question: What comics began to dominate in Europe?
Answer: Franco-Belgian

Question: When was "The Adventures of Tintin" serialized?
Answer: 1929

Question: In the United States in the middle of the 20th century comics were seen as a risk to culture and what?
Answer: literacy

Question: What was seen as "infantile" in the United States?
Answer: comics

Question: Comics were quoted as a sabotage of art and what?
Answer: literature

Question: What does bandes dessinées mean?
Answer: drawn strips

Question: Comics for adults began to be called what?
Answer: Ninth Art

Question: What year did Pilote begin?
Answer: 1959

Question: What became a best-seller comic in the French language?
Answer: Adventures of Asterix

Question: Pilote cartoonists were upset with censorship and what?
Answer: editorial interference

Question: When was L'Écho des savanes begun?
Answer: 1972

Question: Métal hurlant was of what genre?
Answer: science fiction

Question: What format did adult comics begin to be published in?
Answer: prestige

Question: Which historical overview did Seiki Hosokibara create?
Answer: Nihon Manga-Shi

Question: When did Hosokibara create Nihon Manga-Shi?
Answer: 1924

Question: What was created in 2001 to give students comic scholarships?
Answer: Japan Society for Studies in Cartoon and Comics

Question: Who helped the rest of the world use the word manga outside of Japan's borders?
Answer: Frederik L. Schodt

Question: What publication is Schodt responsible for?
Answer: Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics

Question: Who put together a history of American comics in 1947?
Answer: Coulton Waugh

Question: What was the name of Waugh's work?
Answer: The Comics

Question: Who created a book about comics from a philosophical point of view?
Answer: David Carrier

Question: What book did Will Eisner create in 1985?
Answer: Comics and Sequential Art

Question: What word is used in France for comics?
Answer: bandes dessinées

Question: What word is used in Japan for comics?
Answer: manga

Question: What does bandes dessinées mean?
Answer: drawn strip

Question: What is the definitive factor of bandes dessinées?
Answer: drawn images

Question: What comics are on the Internet?
Answer: Webcomics

Question: Webcomics reach large audiences and new what?
Answer: readers

Question: With webcomics, readers have access to what?
Answer: archived installments

Question: Not held back by size limits, webcomics are said to have a what?
Answer: infinite canvas

Question: Storyboards and what are thought to be comics by some?
Answer: Wordless novels

Question: Storyboards are used a lot by what?
Answer: Film studios

Question: Storyboards are not considered what?
Answer: an end product

Question: Who does not often see storyboards used in film making?
Answer: the public

Question: A book with pictures with no captions that tell a story are called what?
Answer: Wordless novels

Question: What has not been reached as far as defining comics is concerned?
Answer: consensus

Question: R. C. Harvey, Will Eisner and others are considered to be comic what?
Answer: Theorists

Question: What are there prominent examples of in comic history?
Answer: pantomime comics

Question: Comic critics, such as McCloud, stressed that sequences of what should be primary?
Answer: images

Question: What century had forgotten comic forms rediscovered?
Answer: 20th

Question: In the 1840s, Töpffer wrote theories about whose work?
Answer: his own

Question: Who introduced the term "multiframe"?
Answer: Henri Vanlier

Question: Who used a semiotics method to study comics in the 1970s?
Answer: Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle

Question: Who used cognitive science to learn how people understand comics?
Answer: Neil Cohn

Question: What Russian word is used for comics?
Answer: komiks

Question: What German word is used for comics?
Answer: comics

Question: What Chinese word was derived from the Japanese word manga?
Answer: manhua

Question: What Korean word was derived from the Japanese word for manga?
Answer: manhwa

Question: The word comic comes from the humorous pieces found where?
Answer: newspaper comic strips