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  • Fantom Comics interview

    For anyone who missed my recent video interview with the Fantom Comics store, you can now watch it all online here or at youtube. We had some technically difficulties getting […]

  • Fantom Comics Live Video Podcast

    I’m excited to say that this coming Sunday at 6:30pm Eastern Time I’ll be doing a live video podcast in conjunction with the Fantom Comics store in Washington DC. You […]

  • Commander Mark and visual vocabularies

    I got a blast from the past today when my old friend and awesome comic artist Dan Fraga posted this video of “Commander” Mark Kistler’s classic drawing show from PBS, […]

  • Some January notes…

    Here’s just a few notes from recent developments… For all you Spanish speakers, a new translated article of mine appears in the latest Revista Exégesis, revisiting some of the ideas […]

  • VLOC released in the US!

    I’m excited to say that it looks like my new book, The Visual Language of Comics, is now available in America! The official release date for the book is still […]

  • Metaphors in the Bayeux Tapestry

    Here’s an interesting article examining semantic aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry that just appeared in the latest issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics. I’ve written before about Charles Forceville’s work applying […]

  • Universality and diversity in visual languages

    One of the interesting byproducts of my theory of visual language is the implication that drawings are not universal. Because images look like what they represent (the are “iconic), they […]

  • Updates and such

    With the year closing, now’s as good a time as any to survey some of the things going on around here… Now that The Visual Language of Comics is out […]

  • Der Spiegel article

    For all you German speakers, the latest issue of Der Spiegel has an article about my research. Unfortunately, the full content is not available unless you’re a subscriber, but a […]

  • Syntax, narrative, grammar… what!?

    One of the aspects of my theories that people often find confusing is my claim that sequential images use a “narrative grammar” that is analogous to the grammar in sentences. […]