Evolution of Speech Balloons

[iris]

The evolution of speech balloons (http://bugpowder.com/andy/e.speechballoons.html), compiled from the "Early Comic Archive (http://bugpowder.com/andy/index.html)" by Andy Bleck.

Just thought this was neat.

(Posted with kudos to metafilter's anastasiav.)

[PipingPringle]

That is super-neato! I was actually thinking about who thought up speech balloons like last week!

[Chase]

hehe. wow. i never realized speech balloons went that far back.