Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3481 to 3485 (15-19 May 2017)
Method of Madness:
Because it's funnier when he does more work than he has to.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Wrto fonts that mimic hand lettering...
I'm wondering why comics must be in ALL CAPS. Does that tradition date from a time when comics were for little kids who had not yet learned to read Mixed Case?
cesium133:
I've wondered that myself. Makes it seem like the characters are YELLING. :psyduck:
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 17 May 2017, 20:56 ---Wrto fonts that mimic hand lettering...
I'm wondering why comics must be in ALL CAPS. Does that tradition date from a time when comics were for little kids who had not yet learned to read Mixed Case?
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--- Quote from: cesium133 on 17 May 2017, 20:58 ---I've wondered that myself. Makes it seem like the characters are YELLING. :psyduck:
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Basically when comics with text first appeared, capital text was used simply because it was simpler than cursive script, and in some instances, faster, which was especially critical due to the severe deadline nature of comics.
By the 60s, the printing technology still meant that the quality of the inks and paper meant the inks were prone to running and so capitalised letters still kept their legibility. The technology improved significantly by the 80s, especially in Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, which was one of the first modern era comics to make use of cursive script for thoughts, and later in the Sandman.
But pretty much the reason they still use capital letters nowadays is because it's faster and usually takes up less space in a speech bubble, look at lower case letters like "q" and "p" and how they take up space beneath them to see what I mean.
SubaruStephen:
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--- Quote from: anahata on 17 May 2017, 01:50 ---Why did Marten have to move a heavy locker full of tools when it's recently been demonstrated that Bubbles is much better at that sort of thing?
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Or....she could be over in the corner, demonstrating to Claire how an English Wheel works.
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Co2 laser, close enough. :roll:
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Also: daaaaaaaaaang!
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