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As graphic novels are moving into mainstream publishing, something small, bolding words, has come up in conversations lately for me. So, figured I would tweet out my thoughts on it.
Prose novels don& #39;t usually use italics or bolds to emphasize and the industry has been used to that standard. So, when we come in adding bolds, I think it confuses most MS editors.
In a visual medium, like comics, we have the ability to do things prose novels don& #39;t. We don& #39;t have to describe scenes and we can mark out important words in a sentence by bolding them.
Bolds can mark an important name, or help the reader inflect the sentence as the writer Intended, but there& #39;s one important thing bolds do that seems to get lost.
In this visual medium, bolds in a word balloon add visual variety and can change a solid block of text into something as visually interesting as the art around it.
Text and word balloons don& #39;t live in a vacuum on the page. They should all work together to tell an interesting visual story even down to the bolds.
