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& Decreta a memorata Conpegatione cum noftra approbatione defnper emanata, fuum ubi -
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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Congregaiionis Conciiii a Sanaiflimo approba - ta & emanata ur fequitur ..
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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a term I've coined to describe the cartoony emanata and graphical bag-o'-tricks used by cartoonists to express mental and physical states.
unknown title 2008
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a term I've coined to describe the cartoony emanata and graphical bag-o'-tricks used by cartoonists to express mental and physical states.
unknown title 2008
reesetee commented on the word emanata
In cartoons, the lines drawn around a character's head to indicate shock or surprise.
April 22, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word emanata
Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey creator) coined the term emanata."
Examples of emanata include: (1) lightbulb above a character's head to indicate an idea; (2) indication of sleep by a saw cutting a log or a line of "zzzz"s; (3) the use of dotted lines to indicate a line of sight, and (4) daggers instead of dotted lines to indicate an evil look.
Emanata is actually the feminine form of the Italian adjective emanato, which means radiated, promulgated, issued.
January 17, 2009
maryw commented on the word emanata
"emanata - named by cartoonist Mort Walker, the lines, bursts, and squiggles that indicate emotion or heat from the sun"
Ivan Brunetti, Comics: Easy as ABC! (New York: Toon Books, 2019), p. 23
July 28, 2020