Erik Kwakkel

@erik_kwakkel I'll do a transcription if you like!

@sarah_peverley Thanks, I made a transcription and am seeing an English philologist this morning.

@erik_kwakkel @Sarah_Peverley we're waiting for the transcription! :)

@trameproject @Sarah_Peverley I found a published one. Check my blog tomorrow.

@erik_kwakkel, great blog! I'm going to add it in our news feed. @Sarah_Peverley

@erik_kwakkel date? done a short paper while at college about comics&cartoons,& learned that the first speech bubbles were spotted 13th c :)

@komiska 14th century

@erik_kwakkel Thank you! :) What a wonderful drawing!

@komiska with real speech bubbles too (a little line running from mouth to text)! Will try to dig a bit deeper and report in a blog.

@erik_kwakkel Yes,unfortntly don't have access now 2 my paper,but i remember the img of scrolls from the mouths in a Trinity College manusc

@erik_kwakkel Wikipedia mentions the speech scrolls in Mesoamerican art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_scroll … 650 BC . Very curious to read your post! :)

@erik_kwakkel @MaryMcMyne @A_DOrazio_ right up your alley

@erik_kwakkel Why do the people always look naked under the hoods and capes? I've always wanted to ask someone that knew.

@erik_kwakkel Wat bijzonder. Zie je dat vaker, tekstballonnen? Dacht dat dat moderne uitvinding was...

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