Here are some quick lower case randomly accessed thoughts:
In a previous post, I made mention of Hanna-Barbera Drop-Ins Volume 1. For what it's worth, I come across an image of the vinyl album cover in case you should ever come across such a copy at a record convention, assuming that such get togethers are still held. As a reminder, some of the recordings on Drop-Ins appear on the O'connor Crazies compact disc which is still available. Jersey City FM radio station WFMU offers an excellent commentary on Hanna Barbera Records, the company's division that produced long play albums and 45RPM singles for public consumption, some of them downright odd! http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/08/the-vinyl-side-.html
The Japanese don't have exclusive franchise to print based onomatopoeia. From 1956 and 1987, MAD Magazine's Don Martin had some remarkably creative verbal effects bursting forth from his full page Don Martin Department feature liberally littered with print sound effects. My personal favorite effects was "ZWIT FAT!!!!", which he would pencil in as a whip crack effect or what a lizard tongue might sound like zwitting out of some weirdo's face in order to catch a fly! http://www.geist.com/curiosa/don-martin-department
Even television cashed in on the visual onomatopoeia thing. The original BATMAN TV series served big balloon word fonts when Batman and Robin engaged in fisticuffs with the bad dudes. Click on this address for an online repository of BATMAN thought balloon effects!
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