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Every so often, in movies and TV shows, you see paragraphs like these in fictional newspapers:
Those come from an Earl Hays Press prop newspaper.
In a comic book, I think there's never any need for filler text, because any text that is not relevant to the story can be represented as squiggly lines, gray bars, etc.
As I'm not a regular reader of comic books, I don't know if I'm right about this or not. So my question is: when a newspaper appears in a comic book, is there ever any kind of filler text used?
Dec. 27, 2021 — Just remembered about the classic "Old Man Yells at Cloud" headline from The Simpsons. From the article body I can kind of make out "Oldest Abraham Simpson" and after that I'm not sure...
Edited by JohnRore