Comic strip

Key Words: 

• Panels - name for the comic frames

• Gutter - space between panels

• Speech bubble/balloon.

• Caption - eg narrators voice

• Tier - Single row if Panels

• Splash  - large or even full page opening illustration

• Spread- an illustration that spans more than one page (eg double page spread.)

• Agitrons: wiggly lines around a shaking object or character.

• Blurgits, swalloops: curved lines preceding or trailing after a character's moving limbs.

• Briffits (💨): clouds of dust that hang in the wake of a swiftly departing character or object.

• Dites, hites and vites: straight lines drawn across flat, clear and reflective surfaces, such as windows and mirrors. The first letter indicates direction: diagonal, horizontal and vertical respectively. Hites may also be used trailing after something moving with great speed.

• Emanata: lines drawn around the head to indicate shock or surprise

• Grawlixes (#, $, *, @): typographical symbols standing in for profanities, appearing in dialogue balloons in place of actual dialogue.[2]

• Indotherm (♨): wavy, rising lines used to represent steam or heat.

• Lucaflect: a shiny spot on a surface of something, depicted as a four-paned window shape.

• Plewds (💦): flying sweat droplets that appear around a character's head when working hard, stressed, etc.

• Quimps (🪐): A special example of the grawlix, a symbol resembling the planet Saturn.

• Solrads: radiating lines drawn from something luminous like a lightbulb or the sun.

• Squeans (💫): little starbursts or circles that signify intoxication, dizziness, or sickness.

• Additional symbolia terms include whiteope, sphericasia, that-a-tron, spurls, oculama, crottles, maledicta balloons, farkles, doozex, staggeration, boozex, digitrons, nittles, waftaroms, and jarns.