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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette talks about a computer program that can teach how to design comic books, including such examples as word balloons:

In order to make any content useful in the creation of a comic book, the program itself comes with a built-in frame grabber. This is a utility that allows you to freeze and save anything you see on the computer screen. Once you have the pictures you want, you can move them into the ready-made comic book templates and add text balloons. The balloons are blank; you fill in the text.

At first this seems like an exercise for kids. Kids can do it — the program is easy to use — but it turns out that businesses and schools have already shown interest. A business can easily make a clever product promotion comic book, and at least one has already begun a training manual in comic book style. A schoolteacher has started using it to make comic books to teach science.

If so, that's good, since it helps to introduce comics in schools where needed!

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