Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Overheard

Cartoon aesthetics:

"I think it would look really goofy if you had made a speech balloon with multiple teats."
(Thanks, Elaine!)

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comments: 2

Anonymous said...

Good one! Is there an official name for that part of a speech balloon?

Check out this 16th century speech balloon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Strigel_1506-detail.jpg

-Ben

Michael Leddy said...

If there isn't, there is now. : )

Seriously though, the Wikipedia article refers to the tail.