Just noticed a blog entry by Eddie Campbell from about four months back with some similar thoughts about the dearth of thought balloons in modern comics.
http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/2011/07/fter-yesterdays-post-about-upcoming.html
Showing posts with label Thought balloons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thought balloons. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Space Medicine: Thoughts on Thoughts
It's been awhile, but here's something to chew on.
There are a few ways to indicate a character's interior thoughts and feelings in the comics medium. They can remain silent, expressed entirely through the way an artist chooses to portray a character. In that case all one would have to go on is dialogue, and facial/bodily expressions. Another way of showing a character's interior life is through narrative captioning. In this form, thoughts are expressed directly in text narrated by a character itself or perhaps by some unseen omniscient narrator. This method has gained great popularity in superhero comics over the last twenty to thirty years. There is however one very classic method of depicting a character's thoughts that seems to have fallen out of favor as narrative captions have come to dominate: thought balloons.
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