All PostsLooking back at this post about a thought balloon with two vertical rows of ellipses in a manga. I found this quote:
Some English-style punctuation, such as exclamation points and question marks, are fairly common but none matches the frequency of the ubiquitous ellipses marks (typically rendered as a vertical row of dots), which further extends the realm of sound to such barely audible expressions such as gasps of awe.
Petersen, Robert S. “The Acoustics of Manga.” In A Comics Studies Reader edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester (UP Mississippi, 2008). 165.
The whole article is worth reading. Sound in comics, in general, deserves more attention.
January 4th, 2009