09 January 2009

Origin of the comic strip speech ballon

From Wikipedia:

One of the earliest antecedents to the modern speech bubble were the “speech scrolls”, wispy lines that connected first person speech to the mouths of the speakers in Mesoamerican art.

In Western graphic art, labels that reveal what a pictured figure is saying have appeared since at least the 13th century.

File:Strigel 1506-detail.jpg

The Yellow Kid
is generally credited as the first true comic strip character. His
words initially appeared on his yellow shirt but word balloons very
much like those in use today were added almost immediately, as early as
1896.

File:YellowKid.jpeg

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