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http://dx.doi.org/10.7230/KOSCAS.2014.36.393

The Analysis for the Distinctive Directing of Speech Balloons in Webtoon  

Jeung, Kiu-Ha (부산대학교 디자인학과)
Yoon, Ki-Heon (부산대학교 디자인학과 애니메이션전공)
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Cartoon and Animation Studies / v., no., 2014 , pp. 393-416 More about this Journal
Abstract
Comics has three components: cuts, gap between cuts, speech balloons. Still, it is true that speech balloons are not commonly subject to the study for comics. A few preceding researches pinpoint exactly the morphological features and functions of speech balloons. In today when webtoon becomes generalized, these features and functions are continued as they are and are used in webtoon. We can catch that speech balloons are also affected since the environmental elements of web induce the change in the overall comics directing. There are two perspectives to sort out the features of speech balloons: first, the placement issue of speech balloons. The unlimited expansion of web space gives the environment for comicss to use the gap between cuts as wide as they can. It leads to turn out some of the ways to place the balloons, so we can sort them out general placement, exterior placement, the upper and lower placement, scroll-use type. Second, as the directing techniques for webtoon become digitalized by the morphological issue, speech balloon itself has been expanded its ways to express by various expression methods. Analyzing and classifying, recording the newly emerged conditions on the preceding study are worthy of trying and will become the cornerstone for the follow research.
Keywords
comics; webtoon; speech balloon;
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