Ich Bin Ein Emöticon

Today's Bizarro comic is the most recent collaboration between Dan Piraro and yours truly, and imagines an early appearance of the late-century phenomenon of making faces out of punctuation.

Here's my original concept sketch:

Of course, the second word balloon is entirely unnecessary, and the finished cartoon is much better because of the editing (not to mention Dan's fantastic art).

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