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“Why are all our words in bubbles?” - decisions by apple/facebook/twitter messaging
Rounded edges convey a softer, more receptive graphic format
Bubbles create a consistent amount of negative space around words, helpful in graphics “Don’t all lines carry with them expressive potential” The speech bubble is a great philosophical discovery, a method of representing thought and words
in an effort to make comics seem or appear more adult or legitimate and less like a comic book, they’ve gotten rid of thought balloons altogether, because they’re too iconographic—they reference peoples’ stereotypes of what a comic book is, while they’re reading it. I think that comic makers or publishing houses are afraid that readers might be quick to dismiss what they’re reading if they see a thought balloon in it. It’s really strange to me
mainstream comics insist on having “widescreen” panels so movie producers can better visualise them as films. Prohibiting thought balloons because they made the comic look too much like comics and thought balloons can’t be easily translated to film. In essence these practices are an expression of comics’ self-hatred. Nine-panel grids and thought balloons worked for some of the best stories ever told in the medium. Sacrificing tools that make comics a powerful storytelling medium in the hopes they might be blessed by a Hollywood studio. And I guess that has come true.
Speech was rendered in text, like scrolls from the mouth
