tomorrow i am going to visit the comix-festival fumetto in lucerne and hopefully meet up with my friends wurzeltod and sis. wurzeltod has (official)-blogged an interesting piece on the evolution of speechballoons:
During the 18th century, British caricaturists changed the shape of speechballoons from gothic speech-bands or flags into fluffy balloons, our modern speechballoons.
i quite like the speech-band solution tbh, especially this example [borrowed from the same website]:
Bernhard Strigel: Saint Anne and Angel 1506/07
on the band it says: “Ego sum angelus domini at te missus”. and this would be one of the moments i wish i understood latin. i think it means: “i am the angel dominating yo ass, missus”, or does it not?
Hehe.. it means: “I’m the Lord’s angel who’s been sent to you”, me thinks. God bless my
pointlessfruitful education in thedeadclassical languages.Yup, tomorrow is fine. I’ll be around all day anyway.. so it’s best if you pick a time. I still have the same mobile phone no. btw. 🙂
Sweet, afternoon would be fine for me. Still same MoPho No. too.
bummer, because of holidays i cannot go this year. i’ll miss it dearly. take a good look for me, will you?