I wanted an irregular balloon to express anxiety, fear, etc., and also irregular letters too which can be overlapped between them. I decided to hand-draw the balloon and the lettering because I think it is its better fit (there are a lot of examples in the comic with the same situation). So, for example in the previous panel, you can see a girl screaming. So, I would say 80% of my time I was fine through that creative decision, but the devil is in details, so the 20% was harder than expected in terms of the final design. Also, for balloons, Scribus made it quite easy to create a simple element as a balloon as shown here.Įasy, right? so, what happened then? That sometimes a scene/situation that you are trying to emphasize in a specific panel cannot be tied to an isolated and fixed font/tool/utility. I decided to go through the following fonts: Back issues BB for common conversational text on ballons, and Best Friends for BOOM! metaphors kind of fonts. So, when I decided to start working on this comic the first thing that I did was to search what fonts I will use for introducing all the texts in Scribus in an easy way during the setup of the scanned sources once I prepare them via Gimp. A panel of a girl screaming with its own lettering and balloon draw by hand

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