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	Speech balloon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used in comic books, strips, 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 bubble that conveys subjective thoughts is often referred to as a thought balloon.
		By the start of the 20th century the use of word balloons was ubiquitous, and since that time only a very few comic strips and comic books have relied on captions, notably Hal Foster's Prince Valiant and the early Tarzan comic strip.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Word_balloon (2862 words)

	Balloon Tales \| articles \| The Comicraft Glossary of Lettering Terms
		AIR - the amount of space between text in a word balloon or caption and the edge of the balloon or caption.
		THOUGHT BALLOON - Indicated by a cloudy scalloped balloon shape and a series of three or four circles that point towards the thinker's head, thought balloons have fallen out of favor in recent years but were once a staple device in mainstream comics.
		WHISPER - traditionally a dashed or broken balloon outline is used to indicate that the speaker is whispering.
	www.balloontales.com /articles/glossary/index.html (1779 words)

	ms word xp 2002 product review
		Microsoft Word 2002 is packaged independently, as well as included in the MS Office XP suite and MS Works.
		Word 2002 is much more of an upgrade than was the last release of Word.
		The notes are color coded for different editors, and their comments can appear either in word balloons in your document's margin, or in a separate pane at the bottom of your screen.
	www.world-wide-net.com /library/rvw-wordxp.html (746 words)

	7. Word balloons, finishing, and saving your comic \| Blue Crash Kit
		The two most commonly used forms of dialogue attribution in comics are the word balloon and the simple line.
		Word balloons are a little more involved, but aren't that tough, really.
		Select the word balloon layer, and using the oval marquis tool (or the rectangle if you want rectangular dialogue boxes), draw an oval around your first bit of dialogue and move it to center the dialogue within it.
	www.bluecrashkit.com /cheese/7_word_balloons_finishing_and_saving_your_comic (637 words)

	24 Hours, Part 3c. Narration & Dialogue
		The lettering and word balloons in "24 Hours" also use a wide range of visual cues other than placement in order to describe the intention of the text.
		Text is bolded to indicate words of emphasis, and color is used to distinguish between text from the narrator and narration told by a character within the comic.
		A word balloon should appear on the screen and remain there just long enough for it to be read before the next balloon appears.
	www.mindspring.com /~cityzoo/mjohnson/papers/24hours/decisions-c.html (491 words)

	Madinkbeard » Revelations by Christian Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hill cleverly uses different style word balloons for his two characters, the man’s is rectangular while the woman’s is round, which enables the reader to more easily follow the conversation.
		A sense of time and space is skillfully created by varying panel size and the location of the word balloons (more particularly where the word balloon’s arrows point).
		Blank panels, or long panels with a word balloon at the far right side create a sense of time passing, while the distance between the two characters balloons allows the reader to see the space between them.
	www.madinkbeard.com /blog/index.php?p=43 (334 words)

	Indy Magazine
		Ironically, the man who correctly identifies the "strange, drawn-out cry" as a word is a kabbalist whose devotions transform truly meaningless sounds into "words" that remain unintelligible.
		In a trance, "he ascends a luminous staircase emblazoned with strangely familiar words of no earthly language"—the aforementioned "zhaloup," "gluk," etc.—before reaching a curtain at the end of the seventh palace of the seventh heaven.
		The label on the doorway to heaven's inner sanctum bears a word that denotes a nonlinguistic utterance, and that word itself approximates the sound of a belch.
	www.indyworld.com /indy/winter_2004/wenthe_katchor/10.html (276 words)

	Translating Numbers into Words
		Form a word from the number, then associate it in your mind's eye to a cash dispensing machine.
		For example the double 'c' in the word 'accident' would transpose to 70, because the sound produced is 'ks', as in 'axe'.
		So the word 'knight' would transpose to 21, not 721 - the silent 'k' is not counted.
	www.sharpsoftware.co.uk /pin/page2.html (657 words)

	BalloonHQ - Balloon decorator archive
		When someone believes that balloons are cheap or less than glamorous, it's pretty safe to say they'll be eliminated from the decor.
		The one book that did discuss them listed that balloons should only be used if you run out of money for decorations and that you should simply rent a helium tank and do the work yourself.
		Until we are able to find a way to change the public's overall perception of the value of balloons and balloon artistry, you will probably see our medium ignored by the bridal publication industry.
	www.balloonhq.com /deco/msg.php?msgid=25655 (428 words)

	Speechballoons in Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Balloons became the norm in 1900 with F.Opper's groundbreaking newspaper comic 'Happy Hooligan'.
		The lines in the balloons are adapted from two successive scenes in the play.
		One of numerous sequential strips told via word balloons/in-panel dialogue by British artist James A. Shepherd in the 1880's and early 1890's, in various magazines.
	bugpowder.com /andy/e.speechballoons.html (578 words)

	Troy Hurteau's Web Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I liked the use of thick lines and word ballons and decided to see how well it could be incorperated into a web page.
		I also got away from the notion of an inverted word balloon like is shown in the sketch.
		These word balloons (the >Captions<) comprised the primay element of the design, but it needed accessory ideas.
	www4.ncsu.edu /~jthurtea/01/web/01.html (307 words)

	Articles on breaking into comics and writing: Anatomy of a Comic Book by Jeffery Stevenson
		It consists of two parts--the balloon that holds the dialogue and the tail that points to the character or objects speaking.
		Representation in comic scripts: Generally, a word balloon is the result of character dialogue specified in the script.
		Description: Dialogue refers to the words that actually fill the word balloons and captions...the dialogue between characters or the dialogue between the narrator and the reader.
	storyboard.darkora.net /articles.php?article=26 (2388 words)

	DigitalPriest.Com: Comics
		The difference between a letterer and a typesetting machine is the tiniest fraction of a centimeter's difference between the "E" in the middle of the word "difference" and those at the end of it.
		By and large, though, balloons are round or oval and I'd like to keep it that way.
		If you're a writer or artist placing copy, please indicate the balloons to be anchored to a panel border unless there's a specific dramatic point to be made by a floating balloon.
	phonogram.us /comics/style/frames/letter.htm (640 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Woppit" to "Wordwebs"
		-- Most of the cartoons have word balloons, or, as they are described in the introduction, "loops, inscribed with the words of the speakers, and issuing from their mouths." -- Call no.: E647.C29 ----------------------------------------------------- Word Balloons.
		She tries to stuff a word balloon with an idea on it into his head, but it won't fit.
		"This Word is 'Contradiction.'"* (Cathy, Sept. 9, 1986) / by Cathy Guiswite.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/wrri/wop.htm (6731 words)

	WD2002: Frequently Asked Questions About Comments
		The balloon appears in the margins of your Word document to avoid hiding text or affecting the layout of the document.
		Microsoft Word cannot always display the complete text of a comment in a balloon, or there may be too many comments to easily read the comments in balloons.
		You can turn off the balloons and use the ToolTip or the Reviewing Pane to view the comments, but there is no way to revert to the Comment feature in earlier versions of Word.
	support.microsoft.com /?kbid=286169 (995 words)

	Issue 170
		Usually this is a result of putting the word balloons in after the pencilling stage and the lettering after the word balloons.
		It you do a quick stick figure and then rough in the dialogue and put a nice balloon with breathing room for the lettering and the whole thing doesn't 'fit', you can trim back on the dialogue, or change the position of the figure without having to erase a few hours work to do so.
		The words have to look as if they were meant to be there all along or they are going to look like a sloppy after-thought.
	www.amptoons.com /howto/sim/170.html (906 words)

	24 Hours, Part 4c. Pop-up Text Balloons
		The first step in creating the pop-up word balloons was to create an unanti-aliased selection of the word balloons in the original image.
		Once the word balloons were stored off on their own, the image could then be edited to fill in the areas previously occupied by the text.
		Using masking and careful placement of the word balloons, the original image could be recomposed, one layer at a time.
	www.mindspring.com /~cityzoo/mjohnson/papers/24hours/implementation-c.html (252 words)

	Limitations converting from Word document format to Word 6.0/95 format
		If you are saving a large document with a lot of graphics from Word 2002 to the Word 6.0/95 format and receive a message, it is recommended that you break up the Word 2002 document into smaller files before saving it in the Word 6.0/95 (*.doc) format.
		When you save a Word 2002 document as Word 6.0/95, Word warns you with the message "Some of the features in this document aren't supported by Microsoft Word 6.0/95" and shows you a summary of the features that are not supported and how they appear in Word 6.0/95.
		In Word 6.0 or Word 95, you open a document created in Word 2002 (saved as Word 6.0/95), resave as a Word document, and then reopen the file in Word 2002.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/291337 (1635 words)

	Balloon Tales \| tips \| Lettering: Making Word Balloons
		Type out the text in a balloon lettering font and position it about where you think you'll want it.
		To get a more squarish "TV" shaped balloon, use the open pointer to pull the four edges of the balloon outwards (or select all four edges and use the Scale tool).
		To butt a balloon up against a panel border, use the Box tool and draw a box over the area you want to remove.
	www.balloontales.com /tips/balloon/index.html (474 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		City guidelines, established after a woman was seriously injured by a wayward balloon in 1997, call for the event's trademark inflatable characters to be grounded if winds reach 23 mph and gusts exceed 34 mph.
		A new analysis of weather balloon observations from the last 30 years reveals that the Antarctic has the same 'global warming' signature as that seen across the whole Earth, but is three times larger than that observed globally.
		Welcome to the 34th Annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, where this year there's as much excitement on the ground as there is in the sky— thanks to a new attraction.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=balloons (3115 words)

	Ellen Isaacs: Microcosm: A walkthrough of the UI
		The history of word balloons at the top half of the region shows that this avatar spoke a "speak" and "thought" balloon while on the right side of the region, and then move to the left where she used an "exclaim" and "emote" balloon.
		The balloons, gestures, and facial expressions are set at the bottom of the window (and there were keyboard shortcuts as well).
		As the user's avatar is holding a chair the user clicks on the sand where she wants to put it and moves the cursor down to select "Put here." The avatar moves over to put it the chair down there.
	www.izix.com /pro/communities/walkthrough.php (595 words)

	The AAUGH blog » Blog Archive » Bad balloons
		That last is trickier than it sounds, because Schulz used the panel borders as part of the word balloons.
		In some cases, you could simply leave the balloons open, but with the color backgrounds used in this book, there has to be somewhere where the white of the balloon ends and the color of the background begins.
		Today, such image editing would be done using a computer; the wise touch-up artist would probably simply copy portions of Schulz’s balloons and rotate them, leaving them with a line width and general style matching the original parts of the balloon.
	aaugh.com /wordpress/?p=242 (538 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It's not funny." Those were the solemn words of Jerry Seinfeld during his visit with David Letterman in his effort to rehabilitate the image of his co-star, Michael Richards, aka "Kramer." Richards, as you know, flipped out at an L.A. comedy club and began screaming racial epithets at some fl patrons.
		Lorrie Heasley, of Woodland, Wash., was asked to leave her flight from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., Tuesday for wearing a T-shirt with pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a phrase similar to the popular film...
		Despite CNN’s balloon fiasco at the Democratic convention, the cable net is hoping GOP officials will let it patch in to party convention producers in New York three weeks from now.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=fword (4759 words)

	The Makeshift Miracle- Tutorials- Word Balloons
		A lot of people think of the text and word balloons as the last step in creating their web comic.
		Photoshop allows you a lot of flexibility to create word balloons and orient them well to present your dialogue.
		Spend a little time improving your word balloons and it may improve the readability of your comics.
	www.makeshiftmiracle.com /TutWordB.html (721 words)

	Bring on the Bad Guys
		The Scourge bio was uploaded with a larger image of him wasting the Basilisk and a new word balloon I tried to make look blood-smeared, although I don't think it quite came out right...
		The Punisher proved to be one of those bios that mysteriously survived the initial info dump; however, I went ahead and re-did the word balloon and re-sized an image.
		The Black Knight bio involved re-doing his word balloon, adding the cover of Avengers 48 (Dane's first appearance as the Black Knight) and re-scanning Tales of Suspense 73 'coz I thought the image on the bio looked a little muddy.
	www.geocities.com /marvel_villains/update.html (2995 words)

	The Shifted Librarian
		Paley's software effectively turns any prose into concrete poetry in which a word's size and location are as important to its meaning as how it is used.
		Roll the cursor over a word, and lines pop up that connect it to all the points in the outer circle where the word is used....
		Viewing "Alice," for instance, one can immediately see that the novel's second most significant word is "know," a paradoxical choice for a work in which neither the protagonist nor the reader ever fully understands what is happening.
	www.theshiftedlibrarian.com /categories/ebooks/2002/04/15.html (693 words)

	Word 2004 for Mac
		Express your ideas with more brilliance and clarity using the innovative new tools in Microsoft® Word 2004 for Mac.
		The gold standard in word processing works harder than ever for you with improved reference tools, dynamic reviewing capabilities and enhanced views for organizing your thoughts.
		View changes in comment balloons next to your text, quickly identify the reviewer with color-coded comments and initiate instant message conversations about comments with Microsoft Messenger for Mac.
	www.microsoft.com /mac/products/word2004/word2004.aspx?pid=word2004 (136 words)

	Customizing Word Balloons in Visio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The word balloon example demonstrates how to create a shape with elements outside the alignment box that are flexible and can be moved without affecting the alignment box in any way.
		Where ever you move the pointer, the word balloon remains fixed and of constant size.
		This fuzzy old ShapeSheet screen grab highlights the areas where changes are made to create the word balloon from a regular rectangle shape.
	www.design-drawing.com /visio/balloon.htm (582 words)

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		Balloon tips resemble the word balloons that appear in comic strips.
		Balloon tips provide a non-intrusive way for tray programs to notify users when something happens.
		Show Balloon Tip to make TrayTest display its tip, then watch what messages appear in the main window as you close the tip or wait for the timeout.
	msdn.microsoft.com /msdnmag/issues/02/11/cqa (1740 words)

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