The Zippy from the 19th thrusts us into the world of word (or speech) balloons (or bubbles): (#1) Caricaturist James Gillray is the star of this strip, in which the figures of Griffy and Zippy are drawn in Gillray’s style in panels 1, 2, and 4. (An earlier Zippy on speech balloons appears in a … Continue reading Word balloons