It seems like people don’t use thought balloons as much as they used to in comics.\u00c2\u00a0 That may not be a bad thing, as a poorly used thought balloon can be a real writing crutch.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand,\u00c2\u00a0 a well-purposed thought balloon can help the reader to get to know a character more clearly (and quickly) than anything that could be gleaned from the expression on their face.<\/p>\n
In the last couple of pages I’ve tried it both ways.\u00c2\u00a0 The last panel of the previous page could have had a large thought balloon with an exploration of all the mom’s mixed emotions and anxieties, but I ended up letting the artwork speak for itself.\u00c2\u00a0 On this page, I considered doing the same thing, but I didn’t feel like the image conveyed how mom and daughter are emotionally running parallel with one another.\u00c2\u00a0 And so they’re sharing a thought balloon on this page.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it effective?\u00c2\u00a0 I kind of like the idea, but it may be a little heavy-handed.<\/p>\n
It may be awhile before the next thought balloon gets put to use….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It seems like people don’t use thought balloons as much as they used to in comics.\u00c2\u00a0 That may not be a bad thing, as a poorly used thought balloon can be a real writing crutch.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand,\u00c2\u00a0 a well-purposed thought balloon can help the reader to get to know a character more clearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3,261,260],"tags":[11,54,16,115,269,15,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}