# History of comics question -- talk bubble and think bubble

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**Created:** [August 19, 2001, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-of-comics-question-talk-bubble-and-think-bubble/76960 "2001-08-19T00:47:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-of-comics-question-talk-bubble-and-think-bubble/76960/5 "2001-08-19T18:12:04Z")

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**delphica** wanted to know “when did this become standard in comics?”

The good old Britannica sums it up [Britannica](http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=108755&hook=663399)

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> The “Yellow Kid” also standardized the speech balloon, which had fallen largely into disuse since the 17th century and its occasional appearance in the English caricatural strip around 1800.

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