Usage of "word balloon"

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Graphic convention in comics for representing speech.

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Examples for "speech balloon"

There was a smiley face on the screen with a cartoon speech balloon: 
 The girl who kicked the hornet's nest 

The smoke drifted from his lips like a ghostly speech balloon. 
 Anansi Boys 

One of the "wise men" from the dungeon appeared on the screen, with a speech balloon that said, "Thank you. 
 Ready Player One 

She stared at the page, her words in the speech balloons, and smiled fondly. 
 Discord's apple 

Alpha Company soldiers pound their keyboards to bark soldierly jargon (text appears as speech balloons over their avatars' heads). 
 Wired 

I clicked on the little green box with the white speech bubble. 
 Speaking in Bones 

And the way they visualize that is through the speech bubble. 
 Wired 

It was an expert blanking, missing only a talk-to-the-hand speech bubble. 
 The Irish Times 

Politicians have trapped themselves in their own speech bubble. 
 The Guardian 

A speech bubble displays the existence of comments 
 Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition 

As you type to talk, your head swells until it explodes into a cartoon bubble. 
 Wired 

Berberian runs the gamut of cartoon bubble texts. 
 The Irish Times 

Then a cartoon bubble appeared above its head reading, It looks like you're writing a letter. 
 Year Zero 

Another cartoon bubble appeared. 
 Year Zero 

And so sometimes action results from those two separate cartoon bubbles intersecting. 
 The new yorker 

The drawings are cute but somewhat crude, with panel borders and dialogue balloons that kind of look like something drawn with a Sharpie. 
 Wired 

And we think it's important that you're not in a thought bubble. 
 Wired 

With shaking hands, she pressed on the little thought bubble icon to open Madeline's texts. 
 The Lying Game 

Her frozen smile echoes the thought bubble Will I Win, running like a newsflash below. 
 The Guardian 

A cartoon style thought bubble protruding from her mouth reads, Should I have an abortion? 
 Radio NZ 

A thought bubble emerges from his head. 
 The Irish Times 

Usage of word balloon in English

But the idea was it was supposed to be a word balloon. 
 Wired 

Each keystroke displays an upper body, a lower body, or a word balloon. 
 Wired 

The caricature of Scorpius had a word balloon coming out of its mouth. 
 James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper 

What will happen when word balloons and art panels mutate to fit the space defined by multimedia? 
 Wired 

He would have word balloons that popped over his head and you would see what he was thinking. 
 Wired 

The word ballooned in his brain until it crowded out everything else and was the only word left. 
 The Incredible Shrinking Man 

There are no sequential panels or word balloons but rather beautiful, moody splash pages with occasional story notes along the borders. 
 Reuters 

Meanings of word balloon in English