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  • * I was just looking at Steve W's page about comics, from his London Cartoon Center days, which explains these terms -- IIRC briffit is the little gust of air near a character, plewd is the little drop of sweat that comes off a character's face, and agitron is the 'speed wobble' that indicates that something is moving...

    Inadvertently slightly surreal test comics page jinty 2005

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  • briffit – the cloud of dust that appears when a comic character is running fast, or clouds of dust that hang in the spot where a swiftly departing character or object was previously standing (Mort Walker ©)

    July 30, 2008

  • Reesetee, don't you have a list of Mort Walker terms?

    July 30, 2008

  • Yup. Here it is. Valse does too, as you can see on this page. :-)

    July 30, 2008