For ^projecteducate each week the gallery director of the weeks events has done an alphabetized article with terms relating to their gallery.
So now it's time for Comics and cartoons
Maybe you'll learn something you never knew, maybe not. HA

A

A - Antagonist - The villain of a story. Can be in many forms, a person, a vice, anything that causes issue for the Protagonist.
A - Ashcan - Publishers in house mock up of a new title.

B

B - Balloon - Speach ballons/ bubbles are where dialouge is contained to indicate who is speaking

C

c - Comic Board - a bristol board type paper with pale gridlines to indicate the trim, bleed and live areas for printing used by comic artists.
C - Comix - independent type of comics, non-mainstream (see this article by =Zorgia )

D

D - Digital Press - Digital printing methods to simulate offset printint. Used with small run independent printers.
D - Dangler - An unresolved plotline that the author has apparently forgotten about. One that hasn't been mentioned in a while and seems to be forgotten.

E

E - Elfquest - One of the most successful independent comic books of all time created by Richard and Wendy Pini.

F

F - Foxing - Small orange and brown spots found on the cover of comics over time.

G

G- Graphic Novel - A term coined by Will Eisner as a comic with High Quality story and artwork. More commonly used to refer to thicker perfect bound comics.
G - Golden Age - The period of comics beginning June, 1938 and ending in 1945.

H

H- Hellboy - is a fictional Dark Horse Comics character created by Mike Mignola, who first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 in 1993.

I

I - independent Comic Artists - artists who creates comics themselves or in a small team, usually self published or published by an independent comic publisher.

J

J - The Jaycee Pawman Squad - One of the many online comics found on *Comicslist

K

K - Kitty Weaver - your Cartoons and Comics Gallery Directors moniker. ( ^limnides made me put it)

L

L - Letterer - The artist who applies the text in a comic.

M

M - Mainstream Comic Artist - Artist who works on a team in a large mainstream studio such as DC or Marvel.

N

N - Nothin' - Kitty's got nothing for the letter N. :B

O

O - Onomatopoeia - words that sound like what it is describing, like splat, slap, crack. Commonly used in comics.

P

P - Protagonist - The main good character in a story. Usually struggles with the antagonist.

Q

Q - Quarterly - A comics released 4 times a year.

R

R- Retcon - To retroactively change the continuity of a title or character

S

S- Silver Age - The period that begins in 1956 and ends in 1969.

T

T- Tier - Row of panel, from left to right, on a page.

U

U-Under guide - comic book that is priced less than the guide book price

V

V- Vanishing point - a term used when doing perspective. It's the point where people and objects vanish on the horizon line.

W

W- White Space - black and white comics are a delicate balance of values

X

X- X-over - A cross over, when a character visits another comic book. Like Batman going over to Supermans for tea.

Y

Y- yet again - Yet again kitty's got nothin' :B

Z

Z- ZOT, ZAP - Examples of Onomatopoeia's