[Groop] OT: technical comics question

[Cox]

I've always referred to them as pylon balloons.

~Nate
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  Does anybody know if there is a technical term for those word balloons
that show a more extended bit of dialog in a single panel?  For instance,
person A says something, person B replies, person A replies to that, etc.,
all in the same panel.  I've seen it done a few places, but I'm not sure
what it's called.   While we're at it, is "word balloons" the appropriate
term?

  I'm working on another submission for MAD Magazine (I'm trying to send
them stuff faster than they can reject it), and since I do not draw worth a
hill of beans, I have to describe the visual gags in writing.  I'd like to
have enough vocabulary to sound like I know what I'm doing, since I am
obviously winging it on the format.

  My goal with MAD, other than becoming a regular in the Usual Gang of
Idiots, is to write a piece that appears on the same page as a Sergio
marginal.  Actually, the coolest thing would be to have Sergio be the artist
on something I wrote, but baby steps.  First, I have to have something
accepted.  Not sounding like an idiot would be a good start.

  Janet

  PS:  MAD has the best rejection letters.  Not only are they funny, they
actually give you a reason.

  http://janetharriett.blogspot.com
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