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[[File:Hieroglyph-grain.jpg|thumb|Hieroglyph for "grain" (see [[Pefsu problem]]), which resembles a speech balloon.]]'''Speech balloons''' (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in [[comics]], comic books, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.
[[File:Hieroglyph-grain.jpg|thumb|Hieroglyph for "grain" (see [[Pefsu problem]]), which resembles a speech balloon.]]'''Speech balloons''' (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in [[comics]], comic books, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.
== Description ==


There is often a formal distinction between the balloon that indicates thoughts and the one that indicates words spoken aloud.
There is often a formal distinction between the balloon that indicates thoughts and the one that indicates words spoken aloud.


The balloon that conveys subjective thoughts is often referred to as a thought bubble.
The balloon that conveys subjective thoughts is often referred to as a thought bubble.
== In the News ==
<gallery mode="traditional">
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|Artist-Engineer [[Don Tasmian]] harvesting ripe [[Speech balloon (nonfiction)|speech balloons]] from freshly enumerated [[Diagramaceous soil]].
</gallery>
== Fiction cross-reference ==
* [[Diagramaceous soil]]
* [[Don Tasmian]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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* [[Comics (nonfiction)]]
* [[Comics (nonfiction)]]


== Fiction cross-reference ==
External links:
 
== External links ==


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_balloon Speech balloon] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_balloon Speech balloon] @ Wikipedia

Revision as of 06:19, 20 June 2016

Hieroglyph for "grain" (see Pefsu problem), which resembles a speech balloon.

Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comics, comic books, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.

There is often a formal distinction between the balloon that indicates thoughts and the one that indicates words spoken aloud.

The balloon that conveys subjective thoughts is often referred to as a thought bubble.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links: