Understanding the power of the exclamation mark in cartoon and comic art. In comics, exclamation marks are often used to denote the end of a sentence, when a full-stop might be missed, says Florence.

But where did the exclamation point come from? Any why does it seem to be creeping into everything we do? Turns out, no one really knows the history of the punctuation mark. The current running ...

Io, the theory goes, might have been rendered with its second letter under the first, thus producing an exclamation mark. As Shipley and Schwalbe would have it, the advent of electronic ...

While the combination of a question mark and exclamation point can be effectively replaced by using one of each (“She did what?!”), that somehow lacks the punch of throwing these punctuation ...