The inscriptions are actually similar to speech bubbles in comic books, because they describe the activities of the characters, who offer explanations of what they are doing (‘I am cutting ...

Over at comic-cum-manga blog, Sunday Comics Debt, is a fascinating essay that deals with the differences between thought bubbles in comics and manga. The author theorizes that manga series tend to ...

With speech bubbles, stink lines and naughty jokes, they are uncannily similar to today's graphic novels. In the modern world, there’s a certain snobbery around telling comic strips. Even when ...

A graphic element taken from comic books that is widely used to ... that points to a person or human-like object. Also called "speech bubbles," "voice bubbles," "word balloons" and "text balloons." ...