The researchers posit that their AI speech balloon detection system could be used to create corpora of annotated comic books, or as a first step in a general segmentation pipeline for historical ...

Ever find the speech bubbles above comic book characters a bit hard to read on your tablet or smartphone? Google’s Play Books team apparently did, and so it used machine learning to develop a ...

The tool is called Bubble Zoom and as you might expect, it detects and zooms in on those speech bubbles as you read. Before now, you had to use two fingers to zoom like you would in other apps.

Android: Google Play Books is already our favorite ereader, but it’s quickly becoming our favorite comic book reader as well. Google has just announced a new feature that highlights text bubbles ...

With speech bubbles, stink lines and naughty jokes, they are uncannily similar to today's graphic novels. In the modern world, there’s a certain snobbery around telling comic strips.

YOU say ("Glasgow revealed as the cradle of comic books since Victorian Age", The Herald, November 14) that Scotland can lay claim to the… ...

As Ireland prepares to appoint its first Laureate for Literature, the UK has just appointed its first Comics Laureate, Dave Gibbons. Gibbons, the creator of the classic Watchmen series, was chosen ...