The curved lines that follow the moving limbs of cartoon characters? Those are called blurgits or swalloops. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Comic Strip Motion Lines”
Oh, by gee, by gosh, by gum, by Joe.
Oh, by Joe, oh, by Joe, oh, by Joe.
Oh, by jingo, won’t you hear a loud?
Will you kindly raise your voice?
Lara!
We will build for you a hut.
Yes, you will be our favorite nut.
We’ll have a lot of…
Here’s another cartooning term of art from Mort Walker.
You know, those curved lines preceding or trailing after a character’s moving limbs?
Yeah.
Those are blurgets.
Okay.
Isn’t that perfect?
Yeah.
B-L-U-R-G-I-T-S.
Blurgets.
Or swaloops.
Swaloops.
Yeah.
One’s going forward or blurgets and the one’s going back are swaloops.
I guess so.
Blurgets and swaloops.
I don’t know.
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