MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

My review of Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi (Del Rey) last week was primarily a broader discussion of the series. I didn’t get into any particular images or pages. I did have two pages marked that I wanted to return to, because they offer some examples that I thought were worth sharing.

Looking 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 [...]

Matthew Brady posted these panels from a Golgo 13 manga. He decided that the meaning of the ellipses in thought balloons means “this character is thinking very hard about the situation, but we’re not privy to his thoughts.” I wonder if it could be an obscuring tactic which foregrounds the idea that we don’t know [...]