Topic summary
Comic Books
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Comic book.
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Comic books heavily rely on their organization and visual presentation. Authors focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel position in order to convey the book's content. Specific components of comic books include panels, speech bubbles (also known as balloons), text lines, and characters. Speech balloons are convex containers that hold dialogue or other information. They are generally connected to a character via a tail element, which has an origin, path, tip, and directional point. Creating a comic book involves several steps, including writing, drawing, and coloring, and must take into account directions, axes, data, and metrics. In the United States, the term "comic book" is generally used for comics periodicals and trade paperbacks while "graphic novel" is the term used for standalone books.