‘Just as English has a tendency to absorb words from other languages, it is possible that typographers of the future will use terminology from related fields, such as comic books or graphic novels, which are now commonly accepted as literature. We are already well attuned to the meaning of emanata, the straight lines that emanate from a figure’s head in moments of surprise or astonishment, squeans, the centerless asterisks that resemble popping bubbles and suggest an alcoholic delirium, and the boozex, which is, as the name suggests, an X marked on a bottle to suggest booze. Grawlix refers to the sequence of typographic symbols used to represent non-specific ‘cussing’ such as might be spoken by a cartoon character such as Beetle Bailey (#@$%*!). It was, in fact, Beetle Bailey’s cartoonist, Mort Walker, who gave us the term. (He also named a few of the grawlix’s component parts, such as the jarn, a little spiral, the nittle, a crosshatch, and the quimp, a tiny Saturn-like planet.)’ - Paul Dean 

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