How do comics artists use speech balloons?

Authors

Frank Bramlett, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-23-2014

Publication Title

Hooded Utilitarian

Abstract

This post is the first in a series on how comics artists represent talk in comics. I’ll be writing about speech balloons and how the discipline of conversation analysis (CA) helps us understand how creative these artists can be when they try to show the intricacies of everyday talk.

Consider the following two panels. These are from the webcomic Scenes from a Multiverse by Jon Rosenberg. (Click on each of the titles to see the full comic.)

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This blog post was originally published here: http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/.

Recommended Citation

Bramlett, Frank, "How do comics artists use speech balloons?" (2014). English Faculty Publications. 13.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/englishfacpub/13