Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering.
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Okay just me, but I’ve drawn and read quite a few comic pages, I don’t think a speech balloon “tail” needs to point at a character’s mouth. At the character’s head seems sufficient, and I just looked at a few Alex Toth pages for reference.