In his book The Lexicon of Comicana (1980), written as a satirical look at the devices cartoonists use, Walker popularized a vocabulary called Symbolia, including the term "squeans" to describe the starbusts and little circles that appear around a cartoon's head to indicate intoxication, and grawlixes to indicate the typographical symbols that stand for profanities, which appear in dialogue balloons in the place of actual dialogue.
in his book the lexicon of comicana (1980) written as a satirical look at the devices cartoonists use walker popularized a vocabulary called symbolia including the term "squeans" to describe the starbusts and little circles that appear around a cartoon's head to indicate intoxication and grawlixes to indicate the typographical symbols that stand for profanities which appear in dialogue balloons in the place of actual dialogue