State of the Union, 2016
Paul Jarvis
JANUARY 6, 2016
(2019, 2018, 2017, 2016) (Not that I think I’m a president of this mailing list, or even slightly presidential—I just enjoy the routine of summarizing the year and looking forward to the next.
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THE ART OF SPEECH BALLOONS
Illustration Art
JANUARY 7, 2016
Speech balloons are both the ugliest and the most efficient way of combining words and pictures. Rather than struggle to convey a message purely with images, cartoonists simply write out their message and tie it to the picture using the tail on a balloon. Speech balloons were rooted in 18th century graphics but really took off with the birth of the comic strip in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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