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technics, ...
Below you can find the most common styles in a strip.
FUNCTIONS
Each announcement, text, fulfils different functions: it can be relaxing
(a function of game), it can bring new information to the story (cognitive
function), it can emove you (emotional function), it can convince you to
find something good or bad, beautiful or ugly (persuasive function) it can
even change your ideals or your behaviour.
KABBALISTICAL
SIGNS
If you see
such signs then you ask yourself the question "how can I translate
this in normal, spoken language". But on the other side you know you
already understand the signs. You can understand it because of what you
see in the drawing, or the situation, ... Kabbalistical signs = secret and
only comprehensive for insiders. They suggest a certain atmosphere, the
mood in which the text has to be read. These signs are also a form of selfregulation.
This is needed because a comic is mostly read by a young audience. And socially
they have to meet with certain expectations. That's why so few four-letter
words, curses and protective language layers (words like sexualitity or
death) are used.
ONOMATOPOEIA
Another kind of specific signs (who stand much closer to written language)
are the imitations of sounds or onomatopoeia. Imitations of sounds are a
primaire form of language acquisition: Imitations of sounds made by humans,
objects, vehicules, ... gradually a consensus originates within a linguistic
comunity about the reproduction of a certain sound (e.g. barking) and from
threr the onomatopoeia follows the rules of grammar. These imitations of
sounds can be put outsite as well as inside the textballoon.
METAFORICAL
SIGNS
A
drawing where the artist replaces the speed of the action with for instance
the multiplication of limbs. These unrealistic drawings accentuate the movements
of people, objects and animals. They can express themselves in lines which
indicate the speed, drops of sweat, stars when someone is hurt,...
READING
SIGNS
Punctation
marks are a expedient for indicating rythm and intonation, but just like
other metaforical signs they not point directly to real perceptions. In
the comic the most frequent signs are the interrogation and exclamation
mark ; they replace a spoken word or thought.
TEXTBALLOON
and TEXTCODE
The textballoon mainly serves the role of link between the text and the
thinking/speaking figure in the image.
The textfragments which appear in the story, are not always of the same
kind. Sometimes they're combined with the the character, in other cases
it is a intervention of the author.
We have seven different kinds of texts
1. spoken language by the characters:
the frame is the textballoon, which in most cases is relied to the figure
with a stalk. A textballoon within another textballoon indicates a story
within a story.
2. Thoughts of the characters:
the textballoon is relied to the figure with a series of bubbles.
3. Onomatopoeia,
which can exist without frames or within a textballoon. For an examle
of this kind of style, look at the part about onomatopoeia.
4. Annoucenments by the narrator:
often a small strip in a specific color at the top of the frame which
indicates that the announcement is being made by the narrator.
5. Commentary from the author
on and in his story:
the author acts as an outsider and gives comments on his own story. Things
like for instance the annoucement of a character.
6. Lecturing text within a story:
didactic text which sometimes take the form of a textframe, but has nothing
to do with the intrigue of the story. It's like some kind of extra information.
7. Textual indications
like 'the end' or 'to be continued'. Also things like the numbering of
the pictures, the titles, the name of the author in an image,...
Each announcement, text, fulfils different functions: it can be relaxing
(a function of game), it can bring new information to the story (cognitive
function), it can emove you (emotional function), it can convince you to
find something good or bad, beautiful or ugly (persuasive function) it can
even change your ideals or your behaviour. 
If you see
such signs then you ask yourself the question "how can I translate
this in normal, spoken language". But on the other side you know you
already understand the signs. You can understand it because of what you
see in the drawing, or the situation, ... Kabbalistical signs = secret and
only comprehensive for insiders. They suggest a certain atmosphere, the
mood in which the text has to be read. These signs are also a form of selfregulation.
This is needed because a comic is mostly read by a young audience. And socially
they have to meet with certain expectations. That's why so few four-letter
words, curses and protective language layers (words like sexualitity or
death) are used. 
Another kind of specific signs (who stand much closer to written language)
are the imitations of sounds or onomatopoeia. Imitations of sounds are a
primaire form of language acquisition: Imitations of sounds made by humans,
objects, vehicules, ... gradually a consensus originates within a linguistic
comunity about the reproduction of a certain sound (e.g. barking) and from
threr the onomatopoeia follows the rules of grammar. These imitations of
sounds can be put outsite as well as inside the textballoon. 
A
drawing where the artist replaces the speed of the action with for instance
the multiplication of limbs. These unrealistic drawings accentuate the movements
of people, objects and animals. They can express themselves in lines which
indicate the speed, drops of sweat, stars when someone is hurt,... 
Punctation
marks are a expedient for indicating rythm and intonation, but just like
other metaforical signs they not point directly to real perceptions. In
the comic the most frequent signs are the interrogation and exclamation
mark ; they replace a spoken word or thought. 
1. spoken language by the characters:
2. Thoughts of the characters:
4. Annoucenments by the narrator:
often a small strip in a specific color at the top of the frame which
indicates that the announcement is being made by the narrator.
5. Commentary from the author
on and in his story:
7. Textual indications