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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
15th Apr, 2023 06:04:14 PM
Painting the Medium in the broadest sense
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
15th Apr, 2023 07:16:28 PM
With a bit of Editorial Synaesthesia in that the small font simulates the feeling of having to try a little harder to hear the speaker
When a speech bubble is deliberately made much larger than the text it contains would require, with the text often rendered in a particularly small font, to indicate whispering and/or unemotional delivery.
Examples: https://kiwisbybeat.net/minus/part-111
(panel 7)
https://kiwisbybeat.net/minus/part-120
(panel 6)