Fonts Bubbles and Balloons

[esoteric ed]

Hiya gang, hope this finds you all well.

Well I'm looking for a little help if possible...

After the success of a spoof newspaper I put together this year I'm looking next at producing a spoof comic. The art isn't a problem as I'll be doing that but I'm looking at finding some nice free and user friendly fonts and speech balloons etc for PC (which I can import and manipulate in Corel Draw), I have a few sites bookmarked for free fonts which are pretty cool, but it's the speech balloons/ FX spashes etc I'm interested in. Free sites downloads would of course be ideal but if there's any basic software out there worth snapping up I'd be interested also.

I spotted free Dialogue balloons and FX on the Blambot Comic Fonts site but wasn't sure how to import them into a program like Corel.

Hope someone here can advise.

Many Thanks and looking forward to "Origins"

Sir Ed of EnglandsVillehttp://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-1/83440/ejgrou.jpg">

[Buddy]

blambot has speech bubbles and thought balloons, sound effects etc....

Link: http://www.blambot.com/fonts.shtml" target="_blank">comic fonts

[esoteric ed]

Thanks Chiefy I'll take look at this site again, I did see some free bubbles and balloons but I didn't know how to bring/import them in Corel Draw/Paint.


Ed

[philt]

Try DaFonts - great source of fonts etc.
Easy to import - download the file
Unzip it

Then copy the result into the fonts folder, which depending on the version of Windows you are using is accessible from the Control Panel

Job is a good one

Link: http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=710" target="_blank">http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=710

[Buddy]

Sorry didn't notice you'd already spotted blambot.

To import the speech bubbles, just treat them as an image when importing them on your work space. The speech bubbles are an .eps file if I remember correctly so just place image (or whatever corel uses to place graphics, it's been ages since I used it).

All the other fonts only need to be placed into your fonts folder in the windows folder and they should be added to your list of fonts when you're selecting a font.

[esoteric ed]

Cheers philt, that's looking good too.


Ed :-)

[esoteric ed]

Thanks Sir Ump, I'll give that a go!


Cheers
Ed :-)