Talk:Speech scroll

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Western?
How is it western if it was developed independently in native Americas before any European influence ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Digitalsurgeon (talk • contribs) 11:43, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Relationship to word balloons?
The parallel between these speech scrolls and the Speech balloons found in modern comics seems quite striking, but isn't mentioned here. Does anyone know if the modern word balloon is a direct descendent of the speech scroll tradition in Western art? Or is it just a similar solution to the same problem, arising independently as it did in both Mesoamerica and Europe? --Jfruh (talk) 12:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Good question. I would guess the latter (similar solution), but you could certainly do some research.  Madman (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fairly continuous, I would imagine. The 18th century was actually the golden age of the speech balloon, with far longer ones than now (see Gilray etc), and they go back earlier than that. Banderoles weren't always used, sometimes the words were just painted on the background, as was usual in Byzantine art - see Annunciation (van Eyck, Washington)

. Johnbod (talk) 13:08, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

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language Akdtox (talk) 11:02, 19 May 2013 (UTC)