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Friday
Feb122010

Friday Archive Dive: Word Balloons - Three Common Mistakes

Today's Friday Archive Dive is from June 2, 2009. It discussed three common mistakes people make with their word balloons.

Want to make a small change in how you do your comics that will elevate your game overnight? Improve your word balloons. It's the single, most common flaw in most beginners' work that immediately identifies them as novices in the eyes of their readers. And, amazingly, they are problems that are ridiculously easy to solve. Address these problems, and your work will take on an air of professionalism that is bound to be noticed by your readers.

This post discusses three mistakes commonly made in word balloons and offers alternate solutions and improvements. Log in for the entire post.