The Annual KQA Comics Quiz by Debanjan Bose and Siddarth Pai

COMIKAZEE!!!

Rules40 questions (with some various sub parts)Each part carries one point

“You can look up for inspiration or down in desperation, but not side to side for information”

Pai - Qs 1-17

Jeff Albertson, a MENSA member, holds a degree in chemical engineering but treasures his masters in folklore and mythology even more. He runs the blog “Ain’t I Fat News”, a riff on the popular film review site “Ain’t It Cool News” but is more popular as being the proprietors of a not-so-friendly neighborhood establishment.

His sarcastic wit and slightly misanthropic tendencies culminates in his most quoted phrase of declaring anything to be superlatively terrible

How is Jeff Albertson more popularly known to us,thus making this a fitting first question

1

Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons

Though created with good intentions, SuperGirl #65 annoyed a lot of people who accused DC of ignorant pandering and tokenism. Judging a book by its

cover, what did DC do which drew such flak

and why was it considered ignorant?

2

Answer The kids spelled

out SUPERGIRL in sign language (technically, ASL)

The deaf read like everyone else and their condition doesn’t prevent them from enjoying a comic, rendering the move moot

In April 2011, The publication house Andrews Mcmeel was surprised to receive a painting from Cleveland, Ohio, in response to a fundraising drive started to support the writer of ___X___ who suffered from Parkinsons

The comic is described as a light-hearted comic strip centered around a four-year-old girl and her suburban life experiences on a __X__ with her friends Beni and Dill and her brother, who’s shown in the painting. ID the painter, a comic legend in is own right who

resurfaced after close to a decade, and the comic in which the character in the paintng

appeared

3

Answer Bill Watterson Cul De Sac by

Richard Thompson, who died on July 27th, 2016

Who making a rare cameo in his works? Also ID the works

4

Herge Quick & Flupke

Appearing in Stranger Things #111 (1960), Dr. Orson Karloff, the world's foremost analytical chemist, turns to crime and donned a special armor made of “iron, calcium & chrysotile”. He defeated the Human Torch but spared his life, after thoroughly humiliating the hero. Torch later has the last laugh when he defeats Dr Karloff by absorbing all the oxygen present in the bank the doctor was robbing, forcing him to surrender and ending the minor villainy of Dr Orson Karloff.

The plot is a rip off of a 1947 comic featuring the Torch and a female version of Dr Karloff.

Both characters would have faded into obscurity if not for the Mesothelioma Lawyer’s Blog post in 2012 about how they both were “a lasting reminder of the significant cover-up perpetrated by the __X__ industry regarding the danger associated with __X___ exposure“ ID the supervillain name common to both Dr Orson Karloff and his female

counterpart or the industry which suppressed the dangers associated with it.

A 1990s Fantastic Four issue has the Torch describing the cause of death of the female counterpart. How did she die, which prompted the 2012 blog post?

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Asbestos Man/Asbestos Lady Died due to cancer caused by exposure

to the asbestos in her suit Asbestos man’s cause of death is never

described

What patriotic All-American name, derived from the inspiration of their respective costumes, is given to the super team consisting of Jack Flag, Captain America, & Free Spirit?

6

Stars and Stripes

In the Sandman Universe, __X__ __Y__ is a place in the Dreaming which all travellers (specifically sailors) dream of someday finding.

Appearing First in Frederick Marryat’s novel ‘The Dog Fiend” as lyrics to a sailor’s song:

At __X__ __Y__, where seamen trueWhen here they’ve done their dutyThe bowl of grog shall still renewAnd pledge to love and beauty.

In Sandman, it often assumes the Identity of portly old Gilbert and goes a-wandering ID this realm of Sandman and who ‘Gilbert’ is modelled on

7

Fiddler’s Green G. K Chesterton

2011 Comic Starring who as whom? (Script isn’t important – PS, that’s a clue)

8

Shah Rukh Khan as Ra.One

Judging an album by its cover, Who’s

posthumous album is this?

Judging by the lettering, Who illustrated

it?

9

Frank Zappa Matt Groening, employing the evergreen (terrace) “The Simpsons” Lettering

Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is a 2016 graphic novel by Chester brown featuring a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, and the Virgin Mother amongst others. What is the common thread woven around

them or what is the novel about?

10

Prostitution in the Bible The iconoclastic and bestselling cartoonist of Paying for It: A comic-strip memoir about

being a john returns with a polemical interpretation of the Bible that will be one of the most controversial and talked-about graphic novels of 2016. Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is the retelling in comics form of nine biblical stories that present Chester Brown’s fascinating and startling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Brown weaves a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, Mary of Bethany, and the Virgin Mother and reassesses the Christian moral code by examining the cultural implications of the Bible’s representations of sex work.  

Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is a fitting follow-up to Brown’s sui generis graphic memoir Paying for It, which was reviewed twice in the New York Times and hailed by sex workers for Brown’s advocacy for the decriminalization and normalization of prostitution. Brown approaches the Bible as he did the life of Louis Riel, making these stories compellingly readable and utterly pertinent to a modern audience. In classic Chester Brown fashion, he provides extensive handwritten endnotes that delve into the biblical lore that informs Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus

Many felt the cover change in 2015 to make the 75th anniversary debut of the villain __X__ went a step too far.

It was seen to be a digression from the current state of the female heroine whose new storyline is a more optimistic direction with a fresh take on the role of female superheroes who are often overtly sexualized and marginalized. Also, many were in uproar that the cover holds unwanted sexual subtext with the __X__ holding __Y__ against her will.

Which cover was redone as such or ID X & Y

11

The Killing Joke Joker & batgirl

Cover by Rafael Albuerquerque

If Astra is the second coming: ID the first ID the person its based on

12

• The irreplaceable Supremo• Amitabh Bachan

Mini Theme Round (1 per) Qs 13-17ITS CROSS OVER TIME

Crossover between?

13

My Neighbor Totoro Attack On Titan

Series or characters are fine)

14

Adventure Time/ The Ice King

Batman/ Mr Freeze

ID the blanked out villain

15

Don Rickles

16

Wreck It Ralph Bane from Batman

Characters17

Jesse Pinkman Juggernaut

Debanjan - Qs 17-40

The bulletproof Bantul the Great is one of Narayan Debnath’s iconic comic characters, fondly read by Bengalis across generations.

According to the creator, one of his friends inspired the character. Who?

17

Manohar Aich

These two panels from last year were in recognition of the 100 years of something that was consolidated by and named after Moses Koenigsberg.

What? Who was his boss?

18

King Features Syndicate

William Randolph Hearst

Koenig means king in German.

Who is the creator of the comic?

What is the creator talking about?

The title of the comic is a play on a certain phrase. Which 1968 song’s title, often misinterpreted to be the act of injecting heroin, is also a take on the phrase?

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Picture Credit: Debkumar Mitra

Art Spiegelman

Peanuts

Happiness is a Warm Gun (The Beatles)

The word X in Japan could now also mean ‘an individual who is without a job or between jobs’ or ‘a student who has just passed school and is awaiting university admission’.

A famous 1961 film tells the story of X (the word in its original meaning). A Robert DeNiro film about a Japanese suitcase is also called X.

In comics, think of dystopic NYC and a reincarnation.

What is the word X? What is the classical meaning of X?

20

Ronin

A Samurai without a master.

Sam Lake is the Finnish writer of which 2001 sequential narrative of which he was the protagonist?

20

Max Payne

Very Semi Serious is a 2015 HBO documentary on a bunch of people.

What is it about?

21

New Yorker cartoonists

Calendar Man is a DC character obsessed with dates and commits his crimes accordingly.

For example, in Arkham Knight, he kills the workers of a calendar company on Labour Day.

In the same story, he gathers seven clones of another Batman adversary and names them after the days of the week.

Which Batman villian?

22

Solomon Grundy

Two brands produced special edition comics on this person and (obviously) prominently displayed their products in it.

Who is this person? What are the companies?

23

Kapil Dev Action Shoes BSA (SLR)

In 2006, Anuradha Sawhney, the chief functionary of PETA India, lashed out at India Book House, saying, “The comic is replete with instances that send a message to young minds that it is acceptable to be cruel to animals.”

Which controversial book was she talking about that the IBH had just released in the country? 

24.

Tintin in the Congo

In the Marvel Universe, what is the role of an superior Manhattan-based construction and engineering company called Damage Control?

25

They clean up the rubble and raise parts of the city left destroyed after the battles between the superheroes and their enemies.

Sacred Hearts was a popular young romance comic book of the 1960s.

The protagonist of its 83rd issue – Run for Love – may also be identified by a two-word name.

What?

26.

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Drowning Girl Roy Lichtenstein

based his 1963 painting on the opening splash page of the issue.

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On seeing the first version of this installation, the creator of this character insisted upon an apparently insignificant change to the statue to truly reflect all that he stands (no pun intended) for.

What was the addition?

27.

R K Laxman insisted that the Common Man be placed on unpolished and craggy rocks as opposed to the shiny granite base he was initially placed on.

According to Laxman, it reflects the ordinary Indian’s troubled life.

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What’s happening here?

Which aptly named person was responsible?

28.

Superman’s funeral

Superman is killed in a battle with Doomsday, who too dies.

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Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin created Tankgirl and were visibly inspired by the British punk.

Hewlett is also known for another collaboration, which is not all that punk. What?

29.

Gorrilaz, with Damon Albarn (of Blur)

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50th anniversaryof what?.

30.

Wizard of Id

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In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi divides her novel into multiple chapters with symbolic titles.

For example, the first section is called The Veil, which represents Iran’s cultural identity.

31. A – Which seven-letter word

is used for the immediate next section to reflect brimming revolution and the fact that with no continuous effort, it will cease to be?

B- Which nine-letter word does she use for the section reflecting the loss of innocence and childhood – a motif that’s often seen in the familiar self-portait(s) of Satrapi?

Bicycle

Cigarette

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This artist was employed to create tongue-in-cheek works in the wake of the London Olympics, the result of which was a series called Gallery of Losers, which was displayed all around the borough in giant billboards. Who is the creator?

32.

Sarnath Banerjee

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Which comic strip gets its name from this sermont by Jesus (Matthew 7:6)?

Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor ___ your ___ ___ ___, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

33.

Pearls Before Swine.

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Name this graphic novel, often included in the best lists of all time.

34.

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The next six questions (Qs 35-40) on comics about written works.

Identify the original works.

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40.

1. War and Peace2. Divine Comedy3. Feluda4. Art of War5. The Trial6. Macbeth

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Widescreen Test Pattern (16:9)

Aspect Ratio Test

(Should appear circular)

16x9

4x3