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You have two choices that I can see, and which one you use will likely be dependent on the amount of foreign-language copy you have versus the amount of space you have in the panel to display it: ...
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2019-12-13T12:00:43Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T06:09:23Z (over 4 years ago)
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You have two choices that I can see, and which one you use will likely be dependent on the amount of foreign-language copy you have versus the amount of space you have in the panel to display it: 1) Write the foreign language in the speech balloon with asterisks. The asterisks refer to a footnote at the bottom of the panel translating the text. I think this will be clunky and a little annoying, so unless there's some reason to display the foreign language in all the balloons, I don't recommend it. 2) Indicate in context or with an asterisk that the characters are speaking Foreign Language, and _within the balloon,_ the text is surrounded by «guillemets». This has in fact been covered in a comment to a different question on this site: [How does one present spoken dialogue as a secondary language to signed speech?](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/4815/how-does-one-present-spoken-dialogue-as-a-secondary-language-to-signed-speech) > This is a common punctuation for dialogue in a secondary language in comic books, usually with an asterisk to denote the language. – Joel Shea
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2017-02-22T15:21:52Z (about 7 years ago)
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