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Speech balloon

Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a character's speech or thoughts. A formal distinction is often made between the balloon that indicates speech and the…

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Substance of balloons

Computer-generated speech balloons

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Speech balloon

Nodes132
Edges131
Triples52
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015152
Components1

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Speech balloon

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related to history · 19
Speech balloon → American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, Britain, Capitolias, CE, Elsewhere, European, Greek, In Western, James Gillray, Japan, Jordan, Mesoamerican, One, These, They, USA, With, Word
related to Substance of balloons · 13
Speech balloon → Alaska, Archie, Christmas, Flemish, Harry Potter, In, In Peanuts, Italian, Schroeder, Sometimes, Sturmtruppen, Suske, Wiske
related to Encoding · 10
Speech balloon → Emoji, Error, EYE IN SPEECH BUBBLE, GitHub, Input, It, Slack, SPEECH BUBBLE, Unicode, ZWJ
related to Computer-generated speech balloons · 7
Speech balloon → Comic Book Creator, Comic Life, Mac OS, Many, Microsoft Windows, Products, Windows

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speech comics used bubbles comic balloons bubble lettering one also characters series words character character's often american strip example use

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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Speech balloonrelated to Computer-generated speech balloonsMany0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to Computer-generated speech balloonsProducts0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to Computer-generated speech balloonsComic Book Creator0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to Computer-generated speech balloonsMicrosoft Windows0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to Computer-generated speech balloonsComic Life0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to Computer-generated speech balloonsMac OS0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to Computer-generated speech balloonsWindows0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to EncodingUnicode0.60section
Speech balloonrelated to EncodingIt0.60section

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