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[telophase]

Via Neil Gaiman's blog, the evolution of Speech Balloons.

There are nowhere near enough speech scrolls in manga today, I must say.

Comments

[the-z.livejournal.com]

There's something oddly appealing about those speech scrolls. I'd expect to see something novel like that in indie comics. Maybe I have, in fact.

What fun it would be to do a strip or two like that! (strange to compose for, though)

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

What I kinda wonder about from time to time is the tendency to have everything in caps in latter 'traditional' speech balloons. Whenever I try drawing it, I feel like I'm having the character shouting at someone. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know! It'd probably he horribly annoying to read a 150-page graphic novel like that, but the artist it me likes the design possibilities. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It bothers the hell out of me if the text isn't in all caps. It's like seeing the kind of font used in kids' picture books and first-grade readers, with their irritating lowercase As and Rs, used in grown-up text: there's somethign fundametnally wrong with it, and it means I'm looking at the text instead of reading the story, and that is entirely the wrong effect.

[the-z.livejournal.com]

4komas or simple three-pagers might be just the thing.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You might enjoy this wank (http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/462898.html). In that special way that means "not at all". :D

*twitch*

[the-z.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, your idea is brilliant! I'll gladly work sixty hours a week so I can split profits with you equally because I would be stupid to pass up this opportunity to work on your most awesome story!

Re: *twitch*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hell. They come from Hell, to test us.

[pratyeka.livejournal.com]

That link is awesome.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I like those old speech scrolls, they look awfully pretty.