Alaska remarked on how cold it was, by saying the speech balloons froze as they said them, and the words had to be thawed out to be heard. In the Flemish series Suske en Wiske, on one occasion a thought bubble full of mathematical formulas is cut open with scissors and its contents emptied in a bag, to be saved for later (in a manner not unlike the pensieve in the Harry Potter series). In the same series, speech balloons are occasionally even held and blown up to function as actual balloons or the words of the speech bubble are occasionally shown coming out the side of the speech bubble, to signify that the speaker is moving so fast that their words can't keep up with them, i.e. at supersonic speed. In the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the last words of a murdered Toon (cartoon character) are found under his body in the form of a speech balloon. Computer-generated speech balloons Many digital artists generate speech balloons with general-purpose illustration software. Products like Comic Book Creator for Microsoft Windows, Comic Life for Mac OS X and Windows were developed for the non-professional part of the market. Encoding Unicode character was added with Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It can also be produced with ":speech_ballooon:" on Slack and GitHub. (":left_speech_bubble:") was added with Unicode 7.0 in 2014. See also Balloon help Cartouche – an oval design, often with text inside. Image macro The Bubble Project Pop-Up Video, a television show where pop-up "bubbles" appear on the music video giving additional information References External links "13 Things You Didn’t Know About Comic-Book Lettering," 13th Dimension Comics terminology Language