Cartoons and comic strips typically use speech and thought balloons to show which characters are saying or thinking what. To better convey the full range of feelings and atmosphere in a cartoon narrative, each drawn person could be festooned with a veritable platoon of sensory balloons.

The reader would be more attuned with the characters balloon-strewn to demonstrate also what they’re seeing, tasting, smelling and hearing. To better understand, click below soon.
-- FarmerJohn, Apr 25 2004

ballooned cartoon http://www.geocitie...nie/ballooned.html?
[FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004]

Plewds, Briffits & Squeans, oh my! http://en.wikipedia...Lexicon_of_Comicana
The lexicon of cartoons. [bonkers777, Dec 31 2008]

What! No maledicta?
-- bristolz, Apr 25 2004


What! Like #%&+*@}=!?
-- FarmerJohn, Apr 25 2004


Ahhhh! That floating hunk head is trying to poke her eye out!

Maybe if you had a way of differentiating sense balloons from thought and speech balloons... I can't tell what stuff is being said and what's being felt/thought.

You didn't come up with this just so you could use "cartoon" "festoon" "platoon" and "balloons" all in the same sentence, did you?
-- gastronaut, Apr 25 2004


No, and I thought it was pretty obvious which sense is involved by seeing where the balloon originates.
-- FarmerJohn, Apr 25 2004


This site is like a woman. After two years here, for the life of me, I still don't have a friggin clue what will fly and what will bomb.
-- FarmerJohn, Apr 27 2004


Farmer johnnie, I like it, but I think It has been baked in the Sunday funnies.
-- dentworth, Apr 27 2004


//This site is like a woman. After two years here, for the life of me, I still don't have a friggin clue what will fly and what will bomb.// and there must be 10 times as many men as women to achieve that effect.
-- po, Apr 27 2004


[blea] It's the smell of her perfume.
-- FarmerJohn, Apr 27 2004


Maybe a version where there are just the thought balloons, and the reader must imaginarily provide the dialogue?
-- phundug, Apr 27 2004


How about changing the shape of the balloons, as well?
Dagger = evil thoughts
Heart = loving thoughts etc.
Of course, the words in the balloon could contradict the shape of the balloon.
-- Ling, Apr 27 2004


Traditionally thought bubbles are drawn with a chain of circles rather than a point. You could extend this idea with wavy lines for smell, transverse lines for sound and so on.

.o0O(thinks)
~~~(smells)
||||(hears)
-- Loris, Apr 27 2004



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