What Is a Grawlix?
Before emojis, there were grawlixes. Imagine you're doing some home repairs, and as you're pounding a nail into a piece of wood, you mistakenly bash your thumb. You don't respond calmly with, "Oh darn. I do believe I just hit my thumb with a hammer. It is rather painful." No,
if you smash your thumb with a hammer, you're going to shout, "#@*&!%@!" This isn't the type of publication to spell out curse words — those handy symbols used to replace an expletive are a grawlix. A grawlix is a string of symbols (glyphs) often used in cartoons and comic...
