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How Do Song And Speech Go Together In Comics Panels?, Frank Bramlett
How Do Song And Speech Go Together In Comics Panels?, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
In my last post, I wrote about simultaneous talk in comics, exploring the way that speech balloons can be positioned in a panel to convey a sense of overlapping talk. This post continues the series on the possibilities of simultaneous discourse. However, this one asks how visual and verbal cues might tell us something about the way readers are supposed to imagine hearing the production of both speech and song in the same panel.
The first example is drawn from Full Color, a graphic novel by Mark Haven Britt. I have taught this book a couple of times, …
How Do Comics Artists Use Speech Balloons?, Frank Bramlett
How Do Comics Artists Use Speech Balloons?, Frank Bramlett
English Faculty Publications
This post is the first in a series on how comics artists represent talk in comics. I’ll be writing about speech balloons and how the discipline of conversation analysis (CA) helps us understand how creative these artists can be when they try to show the intricacies of everyday talk.
Consider the following two panels. These are from the webcomic Scenes from a Multiverse by Jon Rosenberg. (Click on each of the titles to see the full comic.)