The speech balloon as physical object, in a continuing series of Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoons on the theme. Previously on this blog, my 5/18/22 posting “Orienting your speech (balloon)”, in which speech balloons have front sides and back sides. And now the 5/19 cartoon, in which you can record what’s in a balloon by plugging into it. And the 5/21 cartoon, in which the speaker’s laryngitis manifests itself as an empty balloon; it’s the balloon that’s afflicted.
Old business. From 5/18.
(#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
New Business: 5/19.
(#2) In which we see that the contents of a speech balloon can be accessed by mechanical devices (4 symbols in this one)
New Business: 5/21.
(#3) The point is that he’s not just failing to speak, but that he’s unable to; his balloon is empty because it’s afflicted (3 symbols in this one)
May 23, 2022 at 12:24 pm |
Wayno, on his comics blog, discusses how all six of last week’s weekday/Saturday Bizarro comics dealt with speech (or thought) balloons in some “meta” way or another.
https://waynocartoons.blogspot.com/2022/05/fumetti-cumuli.html